Comment on PEP 263 - Defining Python Source Code Encodings

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

>     Martin> Sure, but Python should allow to implement such
>     Martin> interapplication communication, so application programmers
>     Martin> need a way to emit them.
> 
> What's wrong with `f.write("codecs.BOM")'?

That works for writing it. How do you write an application that reads
data in differing endiannesses?

> Well, the current implementation (2.1.3, anyway) cannot be considered
> "support", as it handles appends incorrectly.  See my other post or
> bug #555360.  And I still don't see Python internal string conversion
> as _interapplication_ communication.

The string conversion is not "internal": it is the conversion between
a byte string and a character string. Whether you use this conversion
or not is your choice.

Regards,
Martin