Current py3k stage and next steps

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jun 28 17:07:35 CDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 23:05 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 21:51 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> >> The think I want to make explode is
> >> 
> >>   _("foo %s bar") % rawbytes
> >
> > But we do this.. everywhere a filename is mentioned, for starters.
> 
> There you go -- in my view, you've just pointed out a source of bugs.
> You know I'm in the "we should decode filenames to unicode on input and
> encode them to local encoding on output"-camp.

I strongly recommend you not try to sink the Py3k port effort by tying
this particular boat anchor to it. It's not helpful.

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