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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:14:35 +1000
Subject: Re: Why has python3 been created as a seperate language where there is still python2.7 ?
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:34 PM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the other side, one can argue this (elegancy):
>
> b'a series of bytes'
> u'a unicode, a series of code points'

Alas, not perfectly so. A 'bytes' object and a 'unicode' object can be
described that way (with 'str' an alias for one or t'other), but
literal strings are never that simple. (Backslash escapes, delimiters,
newlines, etc, etc, etc.) However, it is a nice idea, to the extent
that it's possible.

ChrisA