bug#50503: [PATCH] Properly encode all strings sent to the Python shell

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 at 14:38, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks!  But note that there is at least one Emacs 28 dependency left,
>> namely `comint-max-line-length'.
>
> Perhaps there should be some compat code in that case?

If it is stylistically acceptable, I think

  (or (bound-and-true-p comint-max-line-length) 1024)

is the simplest solution.  One could also replace the mysterious 1024 by
0, which was more or less the previous situation anyway.

>
>> There's also a byte-compiler warning regarding
>> `comint-highlight-input' even on Emacs 27.
>
> Warnings are normal on older Emacs versions -- I mean, it'd be good to
> avoid them, but we're mainly worried about actual breakages.

All right then.