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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "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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