[Python-Dev] Community buildbots

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Sat Jul 15 20:40:45 CEST 2006


On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:43:22 +0200, "\"Martin v. Löwis\"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>People can use [-U] to improve the Unicode support in the Python standard
>library. When they find that something doesn't work, they can study the
>problem, and ponder possible solutions. Then, they can contribute
>patches. -U has worked fine for me in the past, I contributed various
>patches to make it work better. It hasn't failed for me at all.

I guess it makes more sense as a development tool to work on zero-dependency
tools like the standard library.  Still, -Q has both a __future__ import and
a command-line option, why not -U?


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