[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 26 09:58:17 CEST 2010


Tres Seaver wrote:

I do know for a fact that using a UCS2-compiled Python instead of the system's UCS4-compiled Python leads to measurable, noticable drop in memory consumption of long-running webserver processes using Unicode

Would there be any sanity in having an option to compile Python with UTF-8 as the internal string representation?

-- Greg



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