Paul Rubin wrote: > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually, what Willie was concerned about was some cockamamie DBMS > > which required to be fed Unicode, which it encoded as UTF-8, > > Yeah, I remember that. > > > Tell you what, why don't you and Willie get together and write a PEP? > > If enough people care about the problem, I'd say just submit a code > patch. I haven't needed it myself, but I haven't (so far) had to deal > with unicode that often. It's a reasonably logical thing to want. > Imagine if the normal length(string) function required copying the > string around.
Almost as bad: just imagine a language that had a normal strlen(string) function that required mucking all the way through the string until you hit some cockamamie in-band can't-happen-elsewhere sentinel. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
