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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> mal wrote:
> 
> > The PEP says:
> > """
> >        The builtin compile() API will be enhanced to accept Unicode as
> >        input. 8-bit string input is subject to the standard procedure
> >        for encoding detection as decsribed above.
> > """
> 
> so if you pass in a Unicode string, any "coding" declaration
> is ignored?

Right.
 
> > so the problem of decoding source code input to compile()
> > is shifted into the application space.
> 
> in other words, something like this should work:
> 
>     stream = make_http_request(...)
>     body = stream.read()
>     charset = stream.getheader("content-type", "charset")
>     if charset:
>         body = unicode(body, charset)
>     code = compile(body, ...)

Yes.

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