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On 10/06/2014 20:43, alister wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:27:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
>

[snip the garbage]

>>
>> jmf
>
> Your error reports always seem to resolve around benchmarks despite speed
> not being one of Pythons prime objectives
>
> Computers store data using bytes
> ASCII Characters can be used storing a single byte
> Unicode code-points cannot be stored in a single byte
> therefore Unicode will always be inherently slower than ASCII
>
> implementation details mean that some Unicode characters may be handled
> more efficiently than others, why is this wrong?
> why should all Unicode operations be equally slow?
>

I'd like to dedicate a song to jmf.  From the "Canterbury Sound" band 
Caravan, the album "The Battle Of Hastings", the song title "Liar".

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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