[Python-Dev] Py2.3 Todo List

[Guido van Rossum]

> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
> 
> > > I am not aware of such a plan, and it is
> > > not part of the approved PEP 263. I would strongly object to such a
> > > change.
> > 
> > Why is that ? The proposed APIs will work just like their
> > counterparts for the internal Unicode/string conversion which
> > have proven to quiet down discussions about choosing ASCII
> > as default encoding.

[MvL]
> But do they have done good? I don't consider quieting down of
> discussions a good thing per se.
> 
> > "Practicality beats purity."
> 
> That is, unfortunately, convincing. I'll certainly bow to BDFL
> pronouncement, but I don't have to like this feature.
> 
> So I withdraw my observation that this would be out of scope for the
> next beta. I'll hope that nobody volunteers to implement it, anyway
> :-) Any potential implementer, please find a way to integrate this
> with IDLE: In absence of a declared source encoding, IDLE should then
> probably assume that source files are in the system source encoding.

Let's discuss this at EuroPython.  We're all (MvL, MAL, me) going to
be there, right?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)