[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu May 22 23:16:31 CEST 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:41:34PM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
>> Would "encoding/errorhandler" sound like a useful syntax?
>
>   encoding:errorhandler

Whichever character is guaranteed never to be part of an encoding
name. All things being equal I'd prefer ':' too, since that's a pretty
common separator in environment variables, and doesn't make it look
like a pathname.

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