Message 101487 - Python tracker

Message101487

Author	flox
Recipients	effbot, flox, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, r.david.murray, scoder
Date	2010-03-22.08:53:58
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Message-id	<1269248041.28.0.775105811968.issue8047@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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http://codereview.appspot.com/664043 (patch against 3.x) IIUC, the changes proposed (for 3.2) are: - default encoding or bool(encoding) == False ==> fallback to 'US-ASCII' encoding (instead of Unicode) - encoding=str or encoding='unicode' ==> serialize to Unicode And it changes the behavior of : - ET.write() - tostring() - tostringlist() For 2.x we could add the options for Unicode output: - encoding=unicode - and encoding='unicode'

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http://codereview.appspot.com/664043 (patch against 3.x)

IIUC, the changes proposed (for 3.2) are:
 - default encoding or bool(encoding) == False
   ==> fallback to 'US-ASCII' encoding (instead of Unicode)
 - encoding=str or encoding='unicode'
   ==> serialize to Unicode

And it changes the behavior of :
 - ET.write()
 - tostring()
 - tostringlist()

For 2.x we could add the options for Unicode output:
 - encoding=unicode
 - and encoding='unicode'

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-03-22 08:54:01	flox	set	recipients: + flox, gvanrossum, effbot, georg.brandl, scoder, r.david.murray
2010-03-22 08:54:01	flox	set	messageid: <1269248041.28.0.775105811968.issue8047@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-03-22 08:53:59	flox	link	issue8047 messages
2010-03-22 08:53:58	flox	create