[Python-checkins] r42396 - peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt

[M.-A. Lemburg]

neal.norwitz wrote:
> Author: neal.norwitz
> Date: Thu Feb 16 06:25:37 2006
> New Revision: 42396
> 
> Modified:
>    peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt
> Log:
> MAL says this option should go away in bug report 874534:
> 
>     The reason for the removal is that the option causes
>     semantical problems and makes Unicode work in non-standard
>     ways on platforms that use locale-aware extensions to the
>     wc-type functions.
> 
> Since it wasn't previously announced, we can keep the option until 2.6
> unless someone feels strong enough to rip it out.

I've been wanting to rip this out for some time now, but
you're right: I forgot to add this to PEP 11, so let's
wait for another release.

OTOH, this normally only affects system builders, so perhaps
we could do this a little faster, e.g. add a warning in the
first alpha and then rip it out with one of the last betas ?!

> Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt
> ==============================================================================
> --- peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt	(original)
> +++ peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt	Thu Feb 16 06:25:37 2006
> @@ -125,6 +125,9 @@
>      Unsupported in:   Python 2.4
>      Code removed in:  Python 2.4
>  
> +    Name:             Systems using --with-wctype-functions
> +    Unsupported in:   Python 2.6
> +    Code removed in:  Python 2.6
>  
>  Copyright
>  
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