[Zope3-dev] i18n, unicode, and the underline

[Guido van Rossum]

> > python -U does this.  It even passes most unit tests. :-)
> 
> Whoa, cool.  Unfortunately, "python -h" does not seem to reveal that option.

That's intentional.  There are some problems with it and we were tired
of dealing with the newbie bugreports, so we undocumented it. :-)

> Then may I make the next (probably obvious) suggestion: let's require 
> that Zope 3 be run with python -U, and fix what's broken with *that*, 
> rather than remain in Unicode transition limbo.  ZODB and the TCP 
> servers probably need some corrections (since they are at the I/O 
> layer), but other than that, I bet we're already in pretty good shape to 
> go full Unicode.

I'll look into this.  First problem I ran into:

[guido@odiug zope3]$ python2.2 -U test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 143, in ?
    import re
ImportError: No module named re
[guido@odiug zope3]$ 

This does not bode well. :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)