[Python-Dev] Removing Non-Unicode Support?
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Mon Feb 20 06:16:37 CET 2006
On 2/19/06, Jeff Rush <jeff at taupro.com> wrote:
[Quoting Neal Norwitz]
> > I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode. I'm not sure
> > if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without
> > unicode. Ask this on c.l.p too.
>
> Such a switch quite likely is useful to those creating Python interpreters
> for small hand-held devices, where space is at a premium. I would hesitate
> to remove switches to drop features in general, for that reason.
>
> Although I have played with reducing the footprint of Python, I am not
> currently doing so. I could never get the footprint down sufficiently to
> make it usable, unfortunately. But I would like to see the Python
> developers maintain an awareness of memory consumption and not assume that
> Python is always run on modern fully-loaded desktops. We are seeing
> increasing use of Python in embedded systems these days.
Do you know of any embedded platform that doesn't have unicode support
as a requirement? Python runs fine on Nokia phones running Symbian,
where *everything* is a Unicode string.
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