[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen@xemacs.org
13 Mar 2002 01:10:23 +0900
>>>>> "Guido" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
Guido> Attaching codecs to streams is currently pretty painful
Guido> AFAICT (I've never tried it :-),
I've tried it exactly once and it worked out of the box, just like the
docs said it would, for a trivial ISO 8859/1 -> UTF-8 recoder. It's
just an additional argument in the open call. This API is a win, and
can naturally be extended to internal streams (such as input()).
Guido> and it's possible that nothing needs to be done.
:-)
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