[Python-Dev] 2.1 alpha: what about the unicode name database?

2001年1月15日 20:45:02 GMT

[Fredrik Lundh]
> The name database portions of SF task 17335 ("add
> compressed unicode database") were postponed to
> 2.1.
>> My current patch replaces the ~450k large ucnhash
> module with a new ~160k large module. (See earlier
> posts for more info on how the new database works).
>> Should I check it in?

[M.-A. Lemburg]
>Since the Unicode character names are probably
>not used for performance sensitive tasks, I suggest to
>checkin the smallest version possible.
>>If it is too much work to get Finn's version recoded in C
>(presuming it's written in Java), then I'd suggest checking
>in your version until someone comes up with a yet smaller
>edition.

FWIW, I agree the that 160k module should be used. Please, nobody should
use the jython compression as an argument to delay any improvements in
CPython. 
I certainly didn't post because I wanted to complicate your processes. I
just wanted to show off <wink>.
regards,
finn