Re: common issue: setlocale handling?
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- Subject: Re: common issue: setlocale handling?
- From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:22:55 +0800
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
> My guess is that you'd get a lot of push back from folks in python-dev. Won't
> a change like this have the potential to produce confusing, wrong, or hard to
> track down bugs? This kind of implicit behavior change seems to run counter
> to the "explicit is better" mantra.
>
> Note too that there's no way this would change before Python 3.2.
>
> I'm not qualified to personally champion this upstream, but I do encourage you
> to submit a bug at bugs.python.org if you feel strongly about it. If you
> can't or don't want to bring it to the attention of python-dev, I will do so
> in a neutral way.
I missed your mail due to an evil mail provider, but it looks like
doko has filed a bug about this:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1703592
Some particularly insightful comments by cjwatson there.
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pabs
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