Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/10/2013 21:11, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
> Le lundi 14 octobre 2013 21:18:59 UTC+2, John Nagle a écrit :
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> [...]
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>>      No, Python went through the usual design screwups.  Look at how
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>> painful the slow transition to Unicode was, from just "str" to
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>> Unicode strings, ASCII strings, byte strings, byte arrays,
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>> 16 and 31 bit character builds, and finally automatic switching
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>> between rune widths. [...]
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>
> Yes, a real disaster.
>
> This "poor" Python is spending its time in reencoding
> when necessary, without counting the fact it's necessary to
> check if reencoding is needed.
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> Where is Unicode? Away.
>
> jmf
>

I very much look forward to seeing your correct Python unicode 
implementation on the bug tracker.

-- 
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.

Mark Lawrence