[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: Keytype and section type extension

Casey Duncan casey at zope.com
Mon Dec 29 15:57:39 EST 2003


On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:48:03 -0500
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fred at zope.com> wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby writes:
[snip]
>  > (The issue here is that Python requires keyword arguments to be
>  > strings rather than Unicode, even though attribute names can be
>  > Unicode.  ZConfig sets attributes using unicode because ZConfig
>  > schemas are XML, and therefore Unicode.)
> 
> Annoying, isn't it?  Not sure it's worth fixing in Python.

I guess this just furthers my theory that all sufficiently advanced bugs and mis-features are indiscernible from unicode. Or, more succinctly: "Blame Unicode" ;^)

-Casey



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