RE: [bch-discuss] Python 2.0

[Michael H. <mw...@ca...>]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Toby Dickenson wrote:

> > > (If anyones interested, Ive been experimenting with 
> > allowing file-like
> > > objects to choose their own character encoding when a unicode string
> > > is printed)
> > 
> > Cool.  How does bytecodehacks help, out of curiosity?
> 
> The regular print converts stuff using str() - which will raise an exception
> in a unicode object that contains non-ascii characters.
> 
> Python 2.0 adds two new instructions in support of the new sytax that lets
> you
> specify the file to which stuff gets printed (print >> file, stuff). Im
> converting
> those instructions into method calls into the file object.

[snip]

Very nice.  I've checked in your changes, plus a few things I'd been
working on intermittently over the last few months.  It passes the tests,
but I'd appreciate it if you could give it a spin!

Cheers,
M.

PS: Do you have a sourceforge ID?  (Careful - if you tell me you're likely
to get added as a developer...).