Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> added the comment: In msg142098 Ezio said: > Keep in mind that we should be able to access and use lone surrogates too, > therefore: > s = '\ud800' # should be valid > len(s) # should this raise an error? (or return 0.5 ;)?
I say: For streams and data types in which lone surrogates are permitted, a lone surrogate should be treated as and counted as a character (codepoint). For streams and data types in which lone surrogates are not permitted, the assigned should be invalid, and raise an error; len would then never see it, and has no quandary. ---------- nosy: +v+python _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12729> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
