[Python-ideas] Proposal for default character representation

[Thomas Nyberg]

On 10/12/2016 05:33 PM, Mikhail V wrote:
> Hello all,

Hello! New to this list so not sure if I can reply here... :)

>
> Now printing  it we get:
>
> u'\u0430\u0431\u0432.txt'
>

By "printing it", do you mean "this is the string representation"? I 
would presume printing it would show characters nicely rendered. Does it 
not for you?
>
> and similarly for other cases where raw bytes must be printed/inputed
> So to summarize: make the decimal notation standard for all cases.
> I am not going to go deeper, such as what digit amount (leading zeros)
> to use, since it's quite secondary decision.

Since when was decimal notation "standard"? It seems to be quite the 
opposite. For unicode representations, byte notation seems standard.

> MOTIVATION:
> 1. Hex notation is hardly readable. It was not designed with readability
> in mind, so for reading it is not appropriate system, at least with the
> current character set, which is a mix of digits and letters (curious who
> was that wize person who invented such a set?).

This is an opinion. I should clarify that for many cases I personally 
find byte notation much simpler. In this case, I view it as a toss up 
though for something like utf8-encoded text I would had it if I saw 
decimal numbers and not bytes.

> 2. Mixing of two notations (hex and decimal) is a _very_ bad idea,
> I hope no need to explain why.

Still not sure which "mixing" you refer to.

>
> So that's it, in short.
> Feel free to discuss and comment.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhail

Cheers,
Thomas