On 11/15/2014 7:28 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 11/13/2014 6:11 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
# The parse functions have no idea what to do with
# Unicode, so replace all Unicode characters with "x".
# This is "safe" so long as the only characters germane
Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 6:11 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
>> # The parse functions have no idea what to do with
>> # Unicode, so replace all Unicode characters with "x".
>> # This is "safe" so long as the only characters germane
>> # to parsing the structure of Python
On 2014-11-13, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On the other hand, if the author is not GvR, then he is most
> likely someone of great importance within the community.
As much as I love Python, I hate the amount of appeal to authority
that is present in the Python community.
Ok, GvR created Python, great.
On 11/13/2014 6:11 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
# The parse functions have no idea what to do with
# Unicode, so replace all Unicode characters with "x".
# This is "safe" so long as the only characters germane
# to parsing the structure of Python are 7-bit ASCII.
# It's *nece
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Rick Johnson
wrote:
> # The parse functions have no idea what to do with
> # Unicode, so replace all Unicode characters with "x".
> # This is "safe" so long as the only characters germane
> # to parsing the structure of Python are 7-bit ASCII.
>
Some of the folks on this list have attempted to shame me
for not accepting "with open arms", this vile encoding we call
Unicode, but i wonder, are they aware of the deepest held
beliefs of our very own leader?
The other day whilst perusing the idlelib i came across a
small but *very* significant
