On Oct 21, 11:03 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't understand the point or value of filtering out all byte values > > greater than 127 > > That's only done if the encoding isn't otherwise specified. In which > case, ASCII is the documented default encoding. In which case, it > *must* be restricted to code points 0+IBM-127, otherwise it's not ASCII. > > The value of doing this is to make it rapidly and repeatably apparent > when the programmer's assumptions about character encoding are false, > allowing the programming error to be fixed early rather than late.
"make it rapidly and repeatably apparent ..." is much better achieved by raising an exception. > This is, in my estimation, of more value than heuristic magic to > +IBw-guess+IB0- the encoding, and the resultant debugging nightmare when > that guesswork fails in unpredictable ways later in the program's > life. Was I suggesting "heuristic magic"? What is that 0+IBM-127 +IBw-guess+IB0- gibberish in your posting? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
