[Python-Dev] just say no...

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
> M.-A. Lemburg writes:
>  > It's been in the proposal since version 0.1. The idea is to
>  > provide a decent way of making existing script Unicode aware.
> 
>   Ok, so I haven't read closely enough.
> 
>  > This is what I intended to implement. The <defencbuf> buffer
>  > will be filled upon the first request to the UTF-8 encoding.
>  > "s" and "s#" are examples of such requests. The buffer will
>  > remain intact until the object is destroyed (since other code
>  > could store the pointer received via e.g. "s").
> 
>   Right.
> 
>  > Note that Unicode object are completely different beast ;-)
>  > String object are not touched in any way by the proposal.
> 
>   I wasn't suggesting the PyStringObject be changed, only that the
> PyUnicodeObject could maintain a reference.  Consider:
> 
>         s = fp.read()
>         u = unicode(s, 'utf-8')
> 
> u would now hold a reference to s, and s/s# would return a pointer
> into s instead of re-building the UTF-8 form.  I talked myself out of
> this because it would be too easy to keep a lot more string objects
> around than were actually needed.

Agreed. Also, the encoding would always be correct. <defencbuf>
will always hold the <default encoding> version (which should
be UTF-8...).

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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