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Subject: Re: Unicode humor
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 15:28:25 -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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