[Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7

[Benjamin Peterson]

If Serhiy wants to spend his time supporting this arcane feature, he can
do that. It doesn't really seem worth risking regressions to do this,
though.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 01:55, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know anyone building Python without Unicode. I would prefer to
> modify configure to raise an error, and drop #ifdef in the code. (Stop
> supporting building Python 2 without Unicode.)
> 
> Building Python 2 without Unicode support is not an innocent change.
> Python is moving strongly to Unicode: Python 3 uses Unicode by
> default. So to me it sounds really weird to work on building Python 2
> without Unicode support. It means that you may have "Python 2" and
> "Python 2 without Unicode" which are not exactly the same language.
> IMO u"unicode" is part of the Python 2 language.
> 
> --disable-unicode is an old option added while Python 1.5 was very
> slowly moving to Unicode.
> 
> I have the same opinion on --without-thread option (we should stop
> supporting it, this option is useless). I worked in the embedded
> world, Python used for the UI of a TV set top box. Even if the
> hardware was slow and old, Python was compiled with threads and
> Unicode. Unicode was mandatory to handle correctly letters with
> diacritics, threads were used to handle network and D-Bus for
> examples.
> 
> Victor
> 
> 
> 2014-06-24 10:22 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>:
> > I submitted a number of patches which fixes currently broken
> > Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7 (built with --disable-unicode configure
> > option). I suppose this was broken in 2.7 when C implementation of the io
> > module was introduced.
> >
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21833 -- main patch which fixes the io module
> > and adds helpers for testing.
> >
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21834 -- a lot of minor fixes for tests.
> >
> > Following issues fix different modules and related tests:
> >
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21854 -- cookielib
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21838 -- ctypes
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21855 -- decimal
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21839 -- distutils
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21843 -- doctest
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21851 -- gettext
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21844 -- HTMLParser
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21850 -- httplib and SimpleHTTPServer
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21842 -- IDLE
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21853 -- inspect
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21848 -- logging
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21849 -- multiprocessing
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21852 -- optparse
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21840 -- os.path
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21845 -- plistlib
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21836 -- sqlite3
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21837 -- tarfile
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21835 -- Tkinter
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21847 -- xmlrpc
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21841 -- xml.sax
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue21846 -- zipfile
> >
> > Most fixes are trivial and are only several lines of a code.
> >
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