[Patches] [ python-Patches-557946 ] Ebcdic compliancy in stringobject source

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Patches item #557946, was opened at 2002-05-19 16:20
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Category: Core (C code)
Group: Python 2.2.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jean-Yves MENGANT (jymen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Ebcdic compliancy in stringobject source

Initial Comment:
the printable character set test made inside
strincgobject.c is not compliant with EBCDIC
systems(OS390 or OS400)

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-05-22 19:09

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Is it really worth fixing this? Python assumes that the
character set of byte strings is an ASCII superset in many
places. If there is any change made here, it should be based
on C library functions, rather than on static knowledge of
the operating system.

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