[Python-Dev] Unicode Snapshot 2000-03-01

[M.-A. Lemburg]

There is a new Unicode implementation snaphot available at the secret
URL. It contains quite a few small changes to the internal APIs,
doc strings for all methods and some new methods (e.g. .title()) 
on the Unicode and the string objects. The code page mappings
are now integer->integer which should make them more performant.

Some of the C codec APIs have changed, so you may need to
adapt code that already uses these (Fredrik ?!).

Still missing is a MSVC project file... haven't gotten around yet
to build one. The code does compile on WinXX though, as Finn
Bock told me in private mail.

Please try out the new stuff... Most interesting should be the
code in Lib/codecs.py as it provides a very high level interface
to all those builtin codecs.

BTW: I would like to implement a .readline() method using only
the .read() method as basis. Does anyone have a good idea on
how this could be done without buffering ?
(Unicode has a slightly larger choice of line break chars as C; the
.splitlines() method will deal with these)

Gotta run...
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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