Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:54, Thomas Heller wrote: > > > I found the discussion of unicode, in any python book I have, insufficient. > > I couldn't agree more. I think explicit treatment of implicit > conversion, the role of sysdefaultencoding, the u'' constructor and > unicode() built in, etc would be helpful to many.
Thanks! BTW, thanks first and foremost to Holger Krekel (who was a very "activist" tech reviewer and specifically contributed a recipe for this purpose), there's what I believe is a pretty good treatment of Unicode in the Cookbook's forthcoming 2nd edition -- still "insufficient" in some sense, no doubt (it IS just a few pages), but, I believe, pretty good. Nevertheless, I'll ensure I focus on this in the 2nd ed Nutshell, too. > It wouldn't hurt to point C extension authors at things like the 'es' > encoded string format for PyArg_ParseTuple to help them make their code > better behaved with non-ascii text. Good sub-point, thanks. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
