[Python-Dev] Some thoughts on the codecs...

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:57:36 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>...
> I'd suggest grouping encodings:
> 
> [encodings]
> 	[iso}
> 		[iso88591]
> 		[iso88592]
> 	[jis]
> 		...
> 	[cyrillic]
> 		...
> 	[misc]

WHY?!?!

This is taking a simple solution and making it complicated. I see no
benefit to the creating yet-another-level-of-hierarchy. Why should they be
grouped?

Leave the modules just under "encodings" and be done with it.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/