[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [MAL, on Unicode chr() and ord()
> > ...
> > Because unichr() will always have to return Unicode objects. You don't
> > want chr(i) to return Unicode for i>255 and strings for i<256.
> 
> Indeed I do not!
> 
> > OTOH, ord() could probably be extended to also work on Unicode objects.
> 
> I think should be -- it's a good & natural use of polymorphism; introducing
> a new function *here* would be as odd as introducing a unilen() function to
> get the length of a Unicode string.

Fine. So I'll drop the uniord() API and extend ord() instead.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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