[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 22:43:50 CET 2012


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Carl M. Johnson
<cmjohnson.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, so concrete proposals: update the docs and maybe make a
> synonym for Latin-1 that makes it more semantically obvious that
> you're not really using it as Latin-1, just as a easy to pass through
> encoding. Anything else? Any bike shedding on the synonym?

encoding="ascii-ish"  # gets the sloppyness right

encoding="passthrough"  # I would like "ignore", if it wouldn't cause
confusion with the errorhandler

encoding="binpass"
encoding="rawbytes"

-jJ



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