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From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
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Subject: Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:17:06 -0500
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On Monday 06 January 2014 16:16:13 Terry Reedy did opine:

> On 1/6/2014 9:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And from my lurking here, its quite plain to me that 3.x python has a
> > problem with everyday dealing with strings.
> 
> Strings of what? And what specific 'everyday' problem are you referring
> to?

Strings start a new thread here at nominally weekly intervals.  Seems to me 
that might be usable info.

Cheers, Gene
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