[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

M.-A. Lemburg writes:
 >     def encode(self,u):
 > 	
 > 	""" Return the Unicode object u encoded as Python string.

  This should accept an optional slice parameter, and use it in the
same way as .dump().

 >     def dump(self,u,stream,slice=None):
...
 >     def load(self,stream,length=None):

  Why not have something like .wrapFile(f) that returns a file-like
object with all the file methods implemented, and doing to "right
thing" regarding encoding/decoding?  That way, the new file-like
object can be used directly with code that works with files and
doesn't care whether it uses 8-bit or unicode strings.

 > Codecs should raise an UnicodeError in case the conversion is
 > not possible.

  I think that should be ValueError, or UnicodeError should be a
subclass of ValueError.
  (Can the -X interpreter option be removed yet?)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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