[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Greg Ewing writes:
 > Paul Moore wrote:
 > > I'd like to write code to do the same
 > > job without needing to lie about what I know. I'm now 100% convinced
 > > that encoding="ascii",errors="surrogateescape" is the way to say this
 > > in code.
 > 
 > Perhaps there should be a more shortwinded way of
 > spelling this?

Yes!  However, I don't think this 1.5-liner needs to be a built-in.
(The 1.5-liner for 'open_as_ascii_compatible' was posted elsewhere.)

There's also the issue of people who strongly prefer sloppy encoding
and Read My Lips: No UnicodeErrors.  I disagree with them in all
purity, but you know ....