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Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers?

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On 9/8/2014 1:44 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> The original question was regarding storage - how PEP 393 says that
>> strings will be encoded in memory in any of three ways (Latin-1,
>> UCS-2/UTF-16, or UCS-4/UTF-32). But even in our world, that is not
>> what a string *is*, but only what it is made of.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that kind of CPython implementation detail would go
> into a PEP. I had thought PEPs codified Python independently of CPython.

There are multiple PEP that are not strictly about Python the language: 
meta-peps, informational peps, and others about the cpython api, 
implementation, and distribution issues. 393 is followed by
397  Python launcher for Windows  Hammond, v. Löwis
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/

The PEP process is a tool for the core development team and the product 
is documentation of decisions and actions thereby

> But maybe CPython is to Python what England is to the UK: even the
> government is having a hard time making a distinction.

We don't.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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How to turn a string into a list of integers? cl@isbd.net - 2014-09-03 13:27 +0100
  Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-09-03 14:52 +0200
    Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? cl@isbd.net - 2014-09-03 15:48 +0100
      Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-09-04 22:06 +0100
        Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? cl@isbd.net - 2014-09-05 09:42 +0100
          Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 19:56 +0200
            Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-06 15:47 +1000
              Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-09-06 10:22 +0200
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-06 21:17 +1000
              Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 14:15 +0200
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-07 04:19 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 21:28 +0200
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-07 11:47 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-07 15:52 +0100
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-08 03:02 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-09-07 10:53 -0700
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-08 04:08 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-09-07 11:34 -0700
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-08 10:14 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-08 08:44 +0300
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-08 15:53 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-08 03:41 -0400
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-08 01:04 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-09-07 11:40 -0400
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-08 04:00 +1000
                Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-08 10:12 +1000
              Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 22:23 +1000
          Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 20:25 +0200
          Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 21:16 +0200
          Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 22:41 +0200
      Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 10:12 +1000
      Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-09-04 20:09 -0600
      Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 12:15 +1000
        Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-06 14:27 +1000
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