[Python-ideas] Py3 unicode impositions

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

(adding back the list...)

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:55, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> As useful as it could be, it needs to clearly be an "external
> standard", and should probably stay external.  I don't want a
> situation where "Hey, this file was detected differently in Py3.4 and
> Py3.5" is a regression bug, or there will never be room for
> improvements.

Well, there have been *very* limited functional changes in the Mozilla
tree since about 2008, so I don't think there would be a great many
changes. And there's a large test suite to make sure regressions are
unlikely. I still think the benefit for the simple cases is
tremendous: a simple one-liner that finds the correct encoding in many
of the cases. There's also very little API surface.

Also, there is an actual 3.x port, I have it installed... should be in
the same tarball.

Cheers,

Dirkjan