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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:24:12 +1000
Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I'm comparing Py33 with Py32 narrow build [*].

Then look at the broken behaviour that Python, up until now, shared
with Javascript and various other languages, in which a one-character
string appears as two characters, and slicing and splicing strings can
split surrogates apart. The new rule is simple: One Unicode codepoint
takes up the space of one character. Anything else is mindbogglingly
counterintuitive.

ChrisA