Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

On 14 Sep 2014 01:33, "R. David Murray" <rdmu...@bitdance.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:06:21 +1200, Nick Coghlan <ncog...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On 13 Sep 2014 10:18, "Jeff Allen" <ja....@farowl.co.uk> wrote:> > > 4. I think (with Antoine) if Jython supported PEP-383 byte smuggling,
it
> > would have to do it the same way as CPython, as it is visible. It's not> > impossible (I think), but is messy. Some are strongly against.> >> > It may be worth trying *without* it (i.e. treat "surrogateescape" as> > equivalent to "strict" initially), and seeing how you go. The main
purpose
> > of surrogateescape in CPython 3 is to recreate the "arbitrary 8-bit data> > round trips work on POSIX" aspect of CPython 2, which doesn't apply in> > exactly the same way on Jython.> >> > Compared to the 8-bit vs 16-bit str discrepancy that exists in Python 2,> > "surrogateescape is equivalent to strict" seems like a relatively small> > discrepancy in behaviour.>> That would totally break the email package.>> It would of course be possible to rewrite email to not use surrogate> escape, but it is a seriously non-trivial undertaking.

That does indeed make for a compelling use case :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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