diferences between 22 and python 23

[Michael Hudson]

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> writes:

>    Ruby 2.0 will probably implement strings with encoding attributes. The
> developers want to avoid changing encoding whenever possible. One posting I
> saw had joining strings with different encodings as an error although I
> don't know if this has been finalised. I doubt whether it will work well, so
> I think the best approach for Python is to watch Ruby and if it is
> successful then copy. "m17n" is the magic googling term but most of the
> available information is encoded in Japanese (EUC).

I fail to see what Python does so badly now that we might want to
consider changing (of course, I haven't read Bengt's recent posts
especially closely, but I found Martin's replies made rather more
sense...).

Cheers,
mwh

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