Neal Norwitz wrote: > On 2/17/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Neal Norwitz wrote: > > >>Another candidate for removal is the --disable-unicode >>switch. >> >>We should probably add a deprecation warning for that in >>Py 2.5 and then remove the hundreds of >>#idef Py_USING_UNICODE >>from the source code in time for Py 2.6. > > I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode. I'm not sure > if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without > unicode. Ask this on c.l.p too.
Such a switch quite likely is useful to those creating Python interpreters for small hand-held devices, where space is at a premium. I would hesitate to remove switches to drop features in general, for that reason. Although I have played with reducing the footprint of Python, I am not currently doing so. I could never get the footprint down sufficiently to make it usable, unfortunately. But I would like to see the Python developers maintain an awareness of memory consumption and not assume that Python is always run on modern fully-loaded desktops. We are seeing increasing use of Python in embedded systems these days. -Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
