Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python 3.2 has some deadly infection Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:32:39 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <87a99q5a08.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <538C5BB8.1020702@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <538f1a61$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <53902bb1$0$11109$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <87wqcvu20h.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <7b3543f6-6f62-49c5-abdc-e2783fd6d629@googlegroups.com> <87oay7tnxt.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87tx7z5hvw.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87egz25dsd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ff5cf27ef3d5b31f034d3b72bdc27a41"; logging-data="29604"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18rksWVJ7DVU4q8OlJy2awb" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cu1L+l6VfGGCQgd2wSJo4PE+0gw= sha1:ZbozBkUmHsLOJx224fMqpDTuErM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:72852 Michael Torrie : > On 06/06/2014 08:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Ethan Furman : >>> ASCII is *not* the state of "this string has no encoding" -- that >>> would be Unicode; a Unicode string, as a data type, has no encoding. >> >> Huh? > > [...] > > What part of his statement are you saying "Huh?" about? Unicode, like ASCII, is a code. Representing text in unicode is encoding. Marko