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Subject: Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:08:27 +0000
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On 06/01/2014 21:42, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 1/6/14 4:33 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 06/01/2014 21:17, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> That strikes me as being as useful as "The PEP 393 FSR is completely
>> wrong but I'm not going to tell you why" approach.
>>
>
> Please stop baiting people.
>

What are you on about?  The comment has been made that "its quite plain 
to me that 3.x python has a problem with everyday dealing with strings". 
  Myself, Terry Reedy and Steven D'Aprano have all commented on this, 
asking for more data.  We've been given nothing, which is precisely what 
our resident unicode expert has given us.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence