[Python-Dev] Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP 292:SimpleStringSubstitutions (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Sat Sep 4 14:05:32 CEST 2004

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

The PEP was about simplification. Tossing in unnecessary unicode coercions is not in line with that goal.

Does anyone else think this is a crummy idea? Yes. Whatever MAL and Barry thinks, Python's current model is 8+8=8, U+U=U, and 8+U=U for ascii U. That's an advantage, not a bug.

Indeed, but I don't see how that's different from what the PEP is saying.

Is everyone ready for unicode coercions to start sprouting everywhere? No. And when that time comes, storing everything as 32-bit characters is not the right answer either.

I'll leave that for the libc designers to decide :-)

If you look at performance, there's not much difference between 8-bit strings and Unicode, so the only argument against using Unicode for storing text data is memory usage.

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