Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> writes: >On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:36:37 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> See PEP 383. > > Okay, that's useful, except that it may have some bugs: > (...) > Assuming that this gets fixed, it should make most of the problems with > 3.0 solvable. OTOH, it wouldn't have killed them to have added e.g. > sys.argv_bytes and os.environ_bytes.
That's hopeless to keep track of across modules if something modifies sys.argv or os.environ. If the current scheme for recovering the original bytes proves insufficient, what could work is a string type which can have an attribute with the original bytes (if the source was bytes). And/or sys.argv and os.environ maintaining the correspondence when feasible. Anyway, I haven't looked at whether any of this is a problem, so don't mind me:-) As long as it's definitely possible to tell python once and for all not to apply locales and string conversions, instead of having to keep track of an ever-expanding list of variables to tame it's bytes->character conversions (as happened with Emacs). -- Hallvard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
