[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Thu Jun 5 21:11:51 CEST 2014


On 6/5/2014 11:41 AM, Daniel Holth wrote:

discover new things like dance-encoded strings, bytes decoded using an incorrect encoding intended to be transcoded into the correct encoding later, surrogates that work perfectly until .encode(), str(bytes), APIs that disagree with you about whether the result should be str or bytes, APIs that return either string or bytes depending on their initializers and so on. Unicode can still be complicated in Python 3 independent of any judgement about whether it is worse, better, or different than Python 2. Yes, people can find ways to write bad code in any language. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140605/4c3594ca/attachment.html>



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