Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader03.nrc01.news.zen.net.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nobody Subject: Re: Language design Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:03:48 +0100 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.python References: <522eb795$0$29999$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 12 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: cb58d737.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=JOZI7SRGL`Q5kOkBni[M:_f2FgniPJjgR=dR0\ckLKGPWeZ<[7LZNRV>NL1BjEmUIWM2Z^cWRFGA[bjjD3X`=P2U X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:53933 On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:07:09 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > * Python requires every programmer to know, or quickly learn, the basics > of Unicode: to know that text is not, and never will be again, > synonymous with a sequence of bytes. If only the Python developers would learn the same lesson ... Some of them are so hooked on Unicode that they won't accept that sometimes a sequence of bytes really is just a sequence of bytes. Primary example: most of the POSIX API.