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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:57 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 06/17/2013 08:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>     <SNIP>
>
> In Python 3.2 and older, the data will be either UTF-4 or UTF-8, selected
> when the Python compiler itself is compiled.

I think that was a typo.  Do you perhaps UCS-2 or UCS-4

> In Python 3.3, the data will
> be stored in either Latin-1, UTF-4, or UTF-8, depending on the contents
> of the string.
>
>

-- 
DaveA