Alex Martelli wrote: > 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
Any schedule for publication of 2nd Ed? I just bought 1st Ed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
