[Python-ideas] Fall back to encoding unicode strings in utf-8 if latin-1 fails in http.client
Emil Stenström
em at kth.se
Thu Jan 7 14:40:56 EST 2016
Den 2016-01-07 kl. 20:04, skrev Guido van Rossum:
> What policy are you referring to?
I was reading
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0387/#backwards-compatibility-rules,
which specifies "raised exceptions", but I see now that it's only a draft.
> I don't think anyone objects against
> making the error message clearer. The objection is against rejecting
> unicode strings that in the past would have been successfully encoded
> using Latin-1.
Then I misunderstood, sorry.
> I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to change the exception type from
> TypeError to UnicodeError -- the exception is really related to Unicode
> so keeping UnicodeError but changing the message sounds like the right
> thing to do. And this can be done independently in both Requests and the
> stdlib.
Agreed. I would also suggest adding the suggestion of encoding in
"utf-8" specifically which is most likely what will fix the problem. As
time goes by and more and more legacy systems disappear, this advise
will become truer each year.
/Emil
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