[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 17:13 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :
> Antoine Pitrou writes:
>  > Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 13:58 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a
>  > écrit :
>  > > Antoine Pitrou writes:
>  > > 
>  > >  > The legacy format argument looks like a red herring to me. When
>  > >  > converting from a format to another it is the programmer's job to
>  > >  > his/her job right.
>  > > 
>  > > Uhmmmmmm, the argument *for* this "feature" proposed by several people
>  > > is that Python's numeric constructors do it (right) so that the
>  > > programmer doesn't have to.
>  > 
>  > As far as I understand, Alexander was talking about a legacy pre-unicode
>  > text format. We don't have to support this.
> 
> *I* didn't say we *should* support it.  I'm saying that *others'*
> argument for not restricting the formats accepting by string to number
> converters to something well-defined and AFAIK universally understood
> by users (developers of Python programs *and* end-users) is that we
> *already* support this.

As far as I can parse your sentence, I think you are mistaken.

Regards

Antoine.