[Python-Dev] Re: unicode inconsistency? (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Sep 9 22:12:30 CEST 2004

Neil Schemenauer wrote:

Perhaps I am on the wrong track. However, if I understand the /F bot correctly, he favours a design that does not force everthing to unicode strings.

that's correct.

I'm beginning to think that we need an extra method (text), that can return any kind of string that's compatible with Python's text model.

(in today's CPython, that's an 8-bit string with ASCII only, or a Uni- code string. future Python's may support more string types, at least at the C implementation level).

I'm not sure we can change str or unicode without breaking code in really obscure ways (but I'd be happy to be proven wrong).

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