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Re: Unicode humor

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Unicode humor
Date 2013-05-11 15:28 -0400
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On 11 May 2013 07:01:34 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> Obviously by all three. It takes *hours* to execute
> 
> 'è'*1000.replace('è', 'ã')
> 
> using a skywriting plane, so obviously it isn't Unicode compliant.
>
	But is fully conformant with Python's immutable string type as one
has to fly the new skywriting path -- and then maybe garbage collect the
old message (maybe using a swath of helicopters to wipe out/disperse the
lettering)
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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Unicode humor Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-08 09:19 -0400
  Re: Unicode humor Sven <svenito@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 15:30 +0100
  Re: Unicode humor Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-05-08 19:16 +0200
  Re: Unicode humor jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 08:06 -0700
    Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 01:16 +1000
      Re: Unicode humor Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-11 07:01 +0000
        Re: Unicode humor Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-11 15:28 -0400
    Re: Unicode humor Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-10 11:24 -0400
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      Re: Unicode humor rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 09:07 -0700
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        Re: Unicode humor Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-05-10 09:26 -0700
        Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 22:48 +1000
        Re: Unicode humor Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-11 13:40 +0100
        Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 02:25 +1000

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