Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:51:53 +1300 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1416491999.209592.193345213.3A6FF9A4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87ppch8zvx.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87k32p6ow8.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <871towik8j.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <5470134c$0$12986$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <877fyn68m1.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Wv6gUYcBxSLKnUE1fxo8LwlAv8LbJDoIZKSEP2zfiyG6rIZXjz Cancel-Lock: sha1:cYGvOgp/ei91bH2s8nnJJWsw/Wg= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <877fyn68m1.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:81405 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Unicode strings is not wrong but the technical emphasis on Unicode is as > strange as a "tire car" or "rectangular door" when "car" and "door" are > what you usually mean. The reason Unicode gets emphasised so much is that until relatively recently, it *wasn't* what "string" usually meant in Python. When Python 3 has been around for as long as Python 2 was, things may change. -- Greg