On approximately 4/29/2009 10:17 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Martin v. Löwis:
>> I don't understand the proposal and issues. I see a lot of people
>> claiming that they do, and then spending all their time either
>> talking past each other, or disagreeing. If everyone who claims they
>> understand the issues actually does, why is it so hard to reach a
>> consensus?
>
> Because the problem is difficult, and any solution has trade-offs.
> People disagree on which trade-offs are worse than others.
>
>> I'd like to see some real examples of how things can break in the
>> current system
>
> Suppose I create a new directory, and run the following script
> in 3.x:
>
> py> open("x","w").close()
> py> open(b"\xff","w").close()
> py> os.listdir(".")
> ['x']
but...
py> os.listdir(b".")
['x', '\xff']
> If I quit Python, I can now do
>
> martin at mira:~/work/3k/t$ ls
> ? x
> martin at mira:~/work/3k/t$ ls -b
> \377 x
>
> As you can see, there are two files in the current directory, but
> only one of them is reported by os.listdir. The same happens to
> command line arguments and environment variables: Python might swallow
> some of them.
There is presently no solution for command line and environment
variables, I guess... which adds some amount of urgency to the
implementation of _something_, even if not this PEP.
>> and I'd like any potential solution to be made
>> available as a third-party package before it goes into the standard
>> library (if possible).
>
> Unfortunately, at least for my solution, this isn't possible. I need
> to change the implementation of the existing file IO APIs.
Other than initializing them to use UTF-8b instead of UTF-8, and to use
the new python-escape handler? I'm sure if I read the code for that,
I'd be able to figure out the answer... I don't find any documented way
of adding an encoding/decoding handler to the file IO encoding
technique, though which lends credence to your statement, but then that
could also be an oversight on my part.
One could envision a staged implementation: the addition of the ability
to add encoding/decoding handlers to the file IO encoding/decoding
process, and the external selection of your new python-escape handler
during application startup. That way, the hooks would be in the file
system to allow your solution to be used, but not require that it be
used; competing solutions using similar technology could be implemented
and evaluated.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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