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Thu May 7 23:49:40 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089510.html

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Given your explanation of what the new 'surrogates' handler does (pass
>> rather than reject erroneous surrogates), I think 'surrogates_pass' is
>> fine.  Thus, I considoer that and 'surrogates_excape' the best proposal
>> the best so far and suggest that you make this pair the current status
>> quo to be argued against and improved ... or not.
> 
> That's exactly what I want to avoid: more bike-shedding. If this is now
> changed, it cannot be possibly be argued against and improved - it would
> be final, end of discussion (please!!!).
> 
> So I'm happy to make it "surrogatepass" and "surrogateescape" as
> proposed by Walter. I'm sure you didn't really mean the spelling of
> "excape" to be taken literally - whether or not you meant the plural
> and the underscore literally, I cannot tell. Stephen Turnbull approved
> singular, so that's good enough for me.

Those minor tweaks for consistency with existing names are what I meant 
by 'improve' (with good arguments) and I approve of them also. +1 on 
stopping here.

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