[Python-Dev] unicodeobject.c,2.139,2.140 checkin (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:31:07 +0200

Jack Jansen wrote:

(of course it could be argued that unicode has demonstrated a design flaw in Python, namely that a single data-type was used to store both binary data of unknown interpretation and character arrays, and that there's now little more to be done about that).

This is probably the most significant problem with the usage of strings -- and there's nothing much we can do about it since it's hard-wired in the programmers mind... most other languages have the same problem.

In the long run, I think that the Unicode type should be used for all text data and strings for binary data of unknown encoding.

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