[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik@pythonware.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:34:30 +0100
mal wrote:
> The PEP says:
> """
> The builtin compile() API will be enhanced to accept Unicode as
> input. 8-bit string input is subject to the standard procedure
> for encoding detection as decsribed above.
> """
so if you pass in a Unicode string, any "coding" declaration
is ignored?
> so the problem of decoding source code input to compile()
> is shifted into the application space.
in other words, something like this should work:
stream =3D make_http_request(...)
body =3D stream.read()
charset =3D stream.getheader("content-type", "charset")
if charset:
body =3D unicode(body, charset)
code =3D compile(body, ...)
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