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Re: python for everyday tasks

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On 25/11/2013 10:12, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
> Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 03:01:26 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>>
>> * Python 3 (although not Python 2) is one of the few languages that get
>>
>> Unicode *right*. Strings in Python 3 are text, sequences of Unicode
>>
>> characters, not a thinly disguised blob of bytes. Starting with Python
>>
>> 3.3, Python does away with the difference between "narrow builds" (which
>>
>> save memory at the expense of correctness) and "wide builds" (which give
>>
>> correct Unicode behaviour at the cost of memory). Instead, Python 3.3 now
>>
>> has optimized strings that use only as much memory as needed. Pure ASCII
>>
>> strings will use 1 byte per character, while Unicode strings use 1, 2 or
>>
>> 4 bytes per character as needed. And it all happens transparently.
>>

> [topic beeing more of less closed]
>
> Your paragraph is mixing different concepts.
>
> When it comes to save memory, utf-8 is the choice. It
> beats largely the FSR on the side of memory and on
> the side of performances.
>
> How and why? I suggest, you have a deeper understanding
> of unicode.
>
> May I recall, it is one of the coding scheme endorsed
> by "Unicode.org" and it is intensively used. This is not
> by chance.
>
> jmf
>

Yet more double spaced crap.

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Mark Lawrence

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python for everyday tasks koch.mate@gmail.com - 2013-11-22 15:59 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-23 02:01 +0000
    Re: python for everyday tasks wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 02:12 -0800
      Re: python for everyday tasks Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-25 13:33 +0000
      Re: python for everyday tasks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 08:11 -0700
        Re: python for everyday tasks wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 08:17 -0800
      Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 02:38 +1100
      Re: python for everyday tasks Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-26 10:35 +1100
      Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 11:09 +1100
    Re: python for everyday tasks Pavel Volkov <negaipub@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 22:05 +0400
    Re: python for everyday tasks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 11:15 -0700
    Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 10:11 +1100
  Re: python for everyday tasks Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-22 18:32 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 22:28 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 22:36 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 18:25 +1100
    Re: python for everyday tasks koch.mate@gmail.com - 2013-11-23 16:54 -0800

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