barry warsaw pjaxqpythonorg begin pgp signed message hash sha1 apr 30 2008 241 pm torsten bronger wrote indeed todays perspective see use case getting human text snippets byte strings encoded encoding happened used mo file preferred system encoding agreed question much hassle renamingdeprecation generates existing code maybe shouldnt worried deprecation py3 clean break right might argue renaming ugettext gettext adding something like egettext bgettext method okay think much advantage encoded functions new names given instead renaming also easily use ugettext mimic behaviour works otoh current names inspired gnu gettext seems theres much value renaming methods except increase confusion break backward compatibility well hard evaluate however think danger getting silent errors module switch unicode possibly even unicodeonly results gettext likely passed higherlevel functions use switch unicode gettext returning unicode string clearly documented see much harm using different type scheme c gettext acceptable reimplementation another language torsten agree lets rename ugettext gettext return unicodes thats cleanest api python barry begin pgp signature version gnupg v148 darwin iqcvawubsbowv3ejvbptnxfvaqjf1qqar2guhqxkuckx9oreypwsxhdhisy4pkj l3aipvlvskipiyn8hsujyfra8qiobt5eol6dedmvq78hyxu1valgwo5bovnrjs ttceym9xzuxwxb3stho3ao8pk4vdbtljbsi3vz8br4zzpokqrwimowozqyq6u1 ewxfuwe19qi 936h end pgp signature _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 025235 0400 python3000 gettext