[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Why didn't you point to that discussion from the PEP 383?  And why
> didn't you point to Kowalczyk's message on encodings in Mono, Java, etc.
> from the PEP?  

Because I assumed that readers of the PEP would know (and I'm sure
many of them do - this has been *really* discussed over and over again).

> Under the set of constraints that Guido imposes, plus the requirement
> that round-trip works for illegal encodings, there is no other solution
> than PEP 383.

Well, there actually is an alternative: expose byte-oriented interfaces
in parallel with the string-oriented ones. In the rationale, the PEP
explains why I consider this the worse choice.

Regards,
Martin