Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2015-05-29, Ian Kelly wrote: >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:05 AM, anatoly techtonik >> wrote: >>> Added Mailman to my suxx tracker: >>> https://github.com/techtonik/suxx-tracker#mailman >> >> What a useless tool. Instead of tiredly complai

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > Do you know about the codecs module? > > reading http://pymotw.com/2/codecs/ may be useful if this is new to you. Does that work for Python 2 and Python 3? > Have you read https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0293/ ? No. > Will backslash

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Laura Creighton
Do you know about the codecs module? reading http://pymotw.com/2/codecs/ may be useful if this is new to you. Have you read https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0293/ ? Will backslashreplace do what you want? Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2015-05-29, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:05 AM, anatoly techtonik > wrote: >> Added Mailman to my suxx tracker: >> https://github.com/techtonik/suxx-tracker#mailman > > What a useless tool. Instead of tiredly complaining that things suck, > why not take some initiative to make

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/05/2015 11:02, Ian Kelly wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:05 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: Added Mailman to my suxx tracker: https://github.com/techtonik/suxx-tracker#mailman What a useless tool. Instead of tiredly complaining that things suck, why not take some initiative to make them b

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:05 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Added Mailman to my suxx tracker: > https://github.com/techtonik/suxx-tracker#mailman What a useless tool. Instead of tiredly complaining that things suck, why not take some initiative to make them better? I'm curious about your complai

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Fri, 29 May 2015 11:05:07 +0300, anatoly techtonik writes: > >>Added Mailman to my suxx tracker: >>https://github.com/techtonik/suxx-tracker#mailman > > You are damning the wrong piece of software -- this is not a problem >

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 29 May 2015 11:05:07 +0300, anatoly techtonik writes: >Added Mailman to my suxx tracker: >https://github.com/techtonik/suxx-tracker#mailman You are damning the wrong piece of software -- this is not a problem with mailman; mailman doesn't care at all what software you use to

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:05 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:52 PM, anatoly techtonik >> wrote: >>> And the short answer is that we need unicode because we are printing this >>> information to the stdout, and stdout is opened in text mode at least on >>> Windows, and wi

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > --- Forwarded Message > > Return-Path: > Received: from mail.python.org (mail.python.org [82.94.164.166]) > by theraft.openend.se (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4) with ESMTP id > t4RC09ap02From: Chris Angelico > Cc: "python-list@pyth

Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing) (fwd)

2015-05-27 Thread Laura Creighton
Chris Angelico apparantly has a problem with cc'd people who aren't on the list. python-list is very quiet these days, so if you subscribe it won't be drinking from the firehose. And you can always turn off delivery when you are done. Or you can just go read the archives: https://mail.python.or