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On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:30:46 +0000, Chris Torek wrote:

>>I'm not sure what you mean by "full 16-bit Unicode string"?  Isn't 
>>unicode inherently 32 bit?
> 
> Well, not exactly.  As I understand it, Python is normally built
> with a 16-bit "unicode character" type though

It's normally 32-bit on platforms where wchar_t is 32-bit (e.g. Linux).