Message 102523 - Python tracker

Message102523

Author	vstinner
Recipients	dangra, ezio.melotti, lemburg, sjmachin, vstinner
Date	2010-04-07.09:02:02
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Message-id	<201004071101.56629.victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
In-reply-to	<4BBC4451.7030704@egenix.com>

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> >> I also found out that, according to RFC 3629, surrogates > >> are considered invalid and they can't be encoded/decoded, > >> but the UTF-8 codec actually does it. > > > > Python2 does, but Python3 raises an error. > > (...) > > I wonder how that change got into the 3.x branch - I would certainly > not have approved it for the reasons given further up on this ticket. > > I think we should revert that change for Python 3.2. See r72208 and issue #3672. pitrou wrote "We could fix it for 3.1, and perhaps leave 2.7 unchanged if some people rely on this (for whatever reason)."

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> >> I also found out that, according to RFC 3629, surrogates
> >> are considered invalid and they can't be encoded/decoded,
> >> but the UTF-8 codec actually does it.
> >
> > Python2 does, but Python3 raises an error.
> > (...)
> 
> I wonder how that change got into the 3.x branch - I would certainly
> not have approved it for the reasons given further up on this ticket.
> 
> I think we should revert that change for Python 3.2.

See r72208 and issue #3672.

pitrou wrote "We could fix it for 3.1, and perhaps leave 2.7 unchanged if some 
people rely on this (for whatever reason)."

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-04-07 09:02:04	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, sjmachin, ezio.melotti, dangra
2010-04-07 09:02:02	vstinner	link	issue8271 messages
2010-04-07 09:02:02	vstinner	create