[Python-ideas] Stop displaying elements of bytes objects as printable ASCII characters in CPython 3

[Guido van Rossum]

What is this "it" that you propose to just do? I'm sure I have an opinion
on it once you describe it to me.

On Thursday, September 18, 2014, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
wrote:

> Andrew Barnert writes:
>
>  > (By the way, is there a word for that Unicode ignorance and
>  > confusion? Something like "illiteracy" and "innumeracy", but
>  > probably spelled with a non-BMP character, maybe U+1F4A9?)
>
> "Non-superhuman."  "Noncharacter" is a case in point.  And yes, it's
> properly spelled with U+1F4A9, but my spellchecker has "parental
> controls" and I can't enter it.
>
> [various perceptive comments elided]
>
>  > At this point, I'm not sure that adds up to an argument for Nick's
>  > less-str-like version of his original proposal, or against it, but
>  > I'm pretty sure it's a good argument for one or other...
>
> That's exactly the way I feel.  So I would say "damn the torpedos" and
> "Just Do It" and if it's wrong we'll fix it in the mythical-never-to-
> be-implemented-and-so-unmentionable-that-Big-Brother-will-undoubtedly-
> come-take-me-away Python 4000.
>
> Of course we should wait to see if Guido or other reliable oracle has
> a particular opinion, but I really don't think we're going to get
> proof without trying.
>
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