[Python-Dev] Removing --with-wctype-functions support

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> 
>>I want to know status of
>>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050193.html
>>this thread. 
> 
> 
> The status is that they are still there.

Due to lack of time on my part.

>>Will python remove wctype functions support from its core?
> 
> 
> I don't know what MAL's plans are these days, but it is likely that
> he will remove the functions from the places where they are used
> at the moment.

Right. I haven't heard any complaints, so that's the plan.

>>If it will, what about locale-dependent case conversation functions? 
>>
>>Without this support python behaves wrong in tr_TR.UTF-8 locale.

Could you be more specific about the problem ? It's probably
best to open a bug report in SourceForge.

> I can sympathise with the problem. IMO, the right solution is to provide
> them throught the locale module. That would have the advantage that
> the choice of locale-awareness of Unicode case conversions (etc.) is
> a per-script decision, rather than an interpreter built-time decision.
> 
> Patches in this direction (adding the functions to _localemodule.c)
> are welcome, independent of whether they are removed from the methods
> on Unicode objects. Such functions should probably polymorphically
> operate both on byte strings and Unicode strings, allowing to deprecate
> the locale-specific methods on strings as well.

+1, though we will only want to deprecate the "locale dependency",
not the methods themselves ;-)

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