[Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7

[Victor Stinner]

Hi,

I don't know anyone building Python without Unicode. I would prefer to
modify configure to raise an error, and drop #ifdef in the code. (Stop
supporting building Python 2 without Unicode.)

Building Python 2 without Unicode support is not an innocent change.
Python is moving strongly to Unicode: Python 3 uses Unicode by
default. So to me it sounds really weird to work on building Python 2
without Unicode support. It means that you may have "Python 2" and
"Python 2 without Unicode" which are not exactly the same language.
IMO u"unicode" is part of the Python 2 language.

--disable-unicode is an old option added while Python 1.5 was very
slowly moving to Unicode.

I have the same opinion on --without-thread option (we should stop
supporting it, this option is useless). I worked in the embedded
world, Python used for the UI of a TV set top box. Even if the
hardware was slow and old, Python was compiled with threads and
Unicode. Unicode was mandatory to handle correctly letters with
diacritics, threads were used to handle network and D-Bus for
examples.

Victor


2014-06-24 10:22 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>:
> I submitted a number of patches which fixes currently broken
> Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7 (built with --disable-unicode configure
> option). I suppose this was broken in 2.7 when C implementation of the io
> module was introduced.
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21833 -- main patch which fixes the io module
> and adds helpers for testing.
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21834 -- a lot of minor fixes for tests.
>
> Following issues fix different modules and related tests:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21854 -- cookielib
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21838 -- ctypes
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21855 -- decimal
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21839 -- distutils
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21843 -- doctest
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21851 -- gettext
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21844 -- HTMLParser
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21850 -- httplib and SimpleHTTPServer
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21842 -- IDLE
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21853 -- inspect
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21848 -- logging
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21849 -- multiprocessing
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21852 -- optparse
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21840 -- os.path
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21845 -- plistlib
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21836 -- sqlite3
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21837 -- tarfile
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21835 -- Tkinter
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21847 -- xmlrpc
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21841 -- xml.sax
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21846 -- zipfile
>
> Most fixes are trivial and are only several lines of a code.
>
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