[Python-Dev] Import and unicode: part two

[Andy Teijelo]

(Hi, I'm writing from an address different to the one I'm subscribed 
with to the list because I don't have reverse dns in my mail server and 
mail.python.org rejects my messages. I hope that's not much trouble)

Maybe Python should always use an ASCII encodable filename for modules: 
a translation of the module name into an ASCII encodable string that, 
preferrably, was the same as the module name if the module name didn't 
have any non-ASCII characters. Like, if the code said:

import cafe

Python would look for a file named:

cafe.py

but if the code said:

import café

then Python would look, in any platform, for a file named:

café.py  or  café.py  or something nicer.

Something along the lines of xmlcharrefreplace.
Just an idea.

Andy.

El 1/20/11 12:21 a.m., Glyph Lefkowitz escribió:
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
>> Now if the stuff after m_ was the hex UTF-8 of "café", that could get
>> interesting :)
>
> (As it happens, it's the hex digest of the MD5 of the UTF-8 of café... ;-))
>
>
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