[Cython] unicode can bite us ...

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Feb 24 09:33:52 CET 2009


Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> I'm on your side, Robert. At least, I would like to have a easy way to
> specify a string literal matching whatever Python uses for
> identifiers...
>
> And I still thing we should provide facilities to alleviate
> the str/unicode difference and the Py2/Py3 difference...

Well, then show me a case where this is required or at least helpful. My
gut feeling is that this feature will just push the problem we have on one
side of wrapper code over to the other side, without solving anything.

Anyway, this is all just bike-shedding unless we have real code to discuss.

Stefan



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