[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen@xemacs.org
13 Mar 2002 01:28:03 +0900


>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

    Paul> "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

    >> Why go in this direction?  It's better to allow each individual
    >> stream to specify a codec to be implicitly applied, I think.

    Paul> Python already has this feature.

For the interpreter console, etc?  How?

    Paul> But the question PEP 0263 answers is not about runtime
    Paul> streams.

Python provides eval().  Punting on that _is_ an answer about runtime
streams.



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