Python 3 is killing Python

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Le mercredi 16 juillet 2014 15:11:26 UTC+2, Marko Rauhamaa a écrit :
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>:
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> > With a few exceptions, /etc is filled with text files, not binary
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> > files, and half the executables on the system are text (Python, Perl,
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> > bash, sh, awk, etc.).
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> Our debate seems to stem from a different idea of what text is. To me,
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> text in the Python sense is a sequence of UCS-4 character code points.
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> The opposite of text is not necessarily binary.
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> Most of those "text" files under /etc expect ASCII. In many contexts,
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> they tolerate UTF-8 or Latin-3 or whatever, but it's a bit iffy (how are
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> extra-ASCII passwords encoded in the /etc/shadow?). Also, the files
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> under /etc, /var/log etc should not depend on the locale since they are
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> typically interpreted by daemons, which typically don't possess locales.
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> > Relatively rare. Like, um, email, news, html, Unix config files,
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> > Windows ini files, source code in just about every language ever,
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> > SMSes, XML, JSON, YAML, instant messenger apps,
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> I would be especially wary of letting Python 3 interpret those files for
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> me. Python's [text] strings could be a wonderful tool on the inside of
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> my program, but I definitely would like to micromanage the I/O. Do I
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> obey the locale or not? That's too big (and painful) a question for
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> Python to answer on its own (and pretend like everything's under
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> control).
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> > word processors... even *graphic* applications invariably have a text
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> > tool.
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> Thing is, the serious text utilities like word processors probably need
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> lots of ancillary information so Python's [text] strings might be too
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> naive to represent even a single character.
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> >> More often, len(b'λ') is what I want.
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> > Oh really? Are you sure? What exactly is b'λ'?
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> That's something that ought to work in the UTF-8 paradise.
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> Unfortunately, Python only allows ASCII in bytes. ASCII only! In this
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> day and age! Even C is not so picky:
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>    #include <stdio.h>
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>    int main()
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>    {
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>        printf("Hyvää yötä\n");
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>        return 0;
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>    }
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> Marko

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And if you are visiting, spying the bugs tracker,
dev lists and ... you will happily, this perpertual
way of thinking:

if ascii:
    do stuff
else:
    find a work around

It's quite funny for a tool which pretends
to live in the unicode world.


jmd