11 Jan
2014
11 Jan
'14
2:28 a.m.
On 01/10/2014 06:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:53:09 -0500 "Eric V. Smith" <eric@trueblade.com> wrote:
So, I'm -1 on the PEP. It doesn't address the cases laid out in issue 3892. See for example http://bugs.python.org/issue3982#msg180432 .
Then we might as well not do anything, since any attempt to advance things is met by stubborn opposition in the name of "not far enough".
Heh, and here I thought it was stubborn opposition in the name of purity. ;)
(I don't care much personally, I think the issue is quite overblown anyway)
Is it safe to assume you don't use Python for the use-cases under discussion? Specifically, mixed ASCII, binary, and encoded-text byte streams? -- ~Ethan~