On 12 Apr., 16:29, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And making an utf-8 encoding default is not possible without writing a > > new function? > > I believe the Zen in effect here is, "In the face of ambiguity, refuse > the temptation to guess." How do you know if the bytes are utf-8 > encoded?
How many "encodings" would you define for a Rectangle constructor? Making things infinitely configurable is very nice and shows that the programmer has worked hard. Sometimes however it suffices to provide a mandatory default and some supplementary conversion methods. This still won't exhaust all possible cases but provides a reasonable coverage. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
