[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions). (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Oct 3 14:59:44 CEST 2005


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

A good rule of thumb is to convert to unicode everything that is semantically textual

and isn't pure ASCII.

(anyone who are tempted to argue otherwise should benchmark their applications, both speed- and memorywise, and be prepared to come up with very strong arguments for why python programs shouldn't be allowed to be fast and memory-efficient whenever they can...)



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