"John Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Just noticed, again, that getattr/setattr are ASCII-only, and don't support | Unicode. | | SGMLlib blows up because of this when faced with a Unicode end tag: | | File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 353, in finish_endtag | method = getattr(self, 'end_' + tag) | UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' | in position 46: ordinal not in range(128) | | Should attributes be restricted to ASCII, or is this a bug?
Except for comments and string literals preceded by an encoding declaration, Python code is ascii only: " Python uses the 7-bit ASCII character set for program text." ref manual 2. lexical analisis This changes in 3.0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
