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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Oct 25 23:04:09 CEST 2005


On 10/25/05, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

I think he was more interested in the invariant Martin proposed, that

len("\U00010000") should always be the same and should always be 1.

Yes but why? What does this invariant do for him?

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