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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
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| Subject | Re: python for everyday tasks |
| Date | 2013-11-25 13:33 +0000 |
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On 25/11/2013 10:12, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote: > Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 03:01:26 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >> >> * Python 3 (although not Python 2) is one of the few languages that get >> >> Unicode *right*. Strings in Python 3 are text, sequences of Unicode >> >> characters, not a thinly disguised blob of bytes. Starting with Python >> >> 3.3, Python does away with the difference between "narrow builds" (which >> >> save memory at the expense of correctness) and "wide builds" (which give >> >> correct Unicode behaviour at the cost of memory). Instead, Python 3.3 now >> >> has optimized strings that use only as much memory as needed. Pure ASCII >> >> strings will use 1 byte per character, while Unicode strings use 1, 2 or >> >> 4 bytes per character as needed. And it all happens transparently. >> > [topic beeing more of less closed] > > Your paragraph is mixing different concepts. > > When it comes to save memory, utf-8 is the choice. It > beats largely the FSR on the side of memory and on > the side of performances. > > How and why? I suggest, you have a deeper understanding > of unicode. > > May I recall, it is one of the coding scheme endorsed > by "Unicode.org" and it is intensively used. This is not > by chance. > > jmf > Yet more double spaced crap. -- Python is the second best programming language in the world. But the best has yet to be invented. Christian Tismer Mark Lawrence
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python for everyday tasks koch.mate@gmail.com - 2013-11-22 15:59 -0800
Re: python for everyday tasks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-23 02:01 +0000
Re: python for everyday tasks wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 02:12 -0800
Re: python for everyday tasks Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-25 13:33 +0000
Re: python for everyday tasks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 08:11 -0700
Re: python for everyday tasks wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 08:17 -0800
Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 02:38 +1100
Re: python for everyday tasks Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-26 10:35 +1100
Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 11:09 +1100
Re: python for everyday tasks Pavel Volkov <negaipub@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 22:05 +0400
Re: python for everyday tasks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 11:15 -0700
Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 10:11 +1100
Re: python for everyday tasks Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-22 18:32 -0800
Re: python for everyday tasks Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 22:28 -0800
Re: python for everyday tasks Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 22:36 -0800
Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 18:25 +1100
Re: python for everyday tasks koch.mate@gmail.com - 2013-11-23 16:54 -0800
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