[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131

[Steve Howell]

--- "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Steve Howell writes:
> 
>  > respect to Kanji, and switches over to Python,
> and
>  > changes his little wrapper shell script to say
> "python
>  > -U" instead of "ruby -Kkcode"?  He could then
> start to
>  > use non-Japanese Python modules while still
> writing
>  > his own Python code in Japanese.
> 
> But that's not enough.  The problem is that the
> reason for -Kkcode is
> that kcode != Unicode.  Japanese use several
> mutually incompatible
> encodings, and they mix anarchically over the
> Internet.  What -K does
> is allow you to specify which one you're giving to
> the interpreter at
> runtime.
> 
> The analogy to -K would be if you get a
> English-language Python source
> file from somewhere, look into it, realize it's from
> IBM, and run it
> with "python -K ebcdic whizbang.py".  Same
> characters, only the bytes
> are changed to confuse the innocent.  That's what
> -Kkcode is for.
> 

I think you misintrepeted my post a bit.  I wasn't
suggesting that Python implement a flag that was
exactly equivalent to the -K flag in Ruby.  I
understand the arguments that such a flag might be
either unnecessary in Python, or unsatisfactory.

What I was trying to say here is that there might be
precedent for non-ascii users already tolerating
command line arguments. 




       
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