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Author benjamin.peterson
Recipients benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, vstinner
Date 2018-02-05.02:19:58
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Both Objects/unicodeobject.c and Modules/unicodedatamodule.c rely on large generated databases (Objects/unicodetype_db.h, Modules/unicodename_db.h, Modules/unicodedata_db.h). This separation made sense in Python 2 where Unicode was less of an important part of the language than Python3-recall Python 2's configure script has --without-unicode!. However, in Python 3, Unicode is a core language concept and literally baked into the syntax of the language. I therefore propose moving all of unicodedata's tables and algorithms into the interpreter core proper and converting Modules/unicodedata.c into a facade. This will remove awkward maneuvers like ast.c importing unicodedata in order to perform normalization. Having unicodedata readily accessible to the str type would also permit higher a fidelity unicode implementation. For example, implementing language-tailored str.lower() requires having canonical combining class of a character available. This data lives only in unicodedata currently.
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