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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jun 6 01:06:57 CEST 2014

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

All these changes are what let me dream on and speculate on possibility that Python4 could offer an encoding-neutral string type (which means based on bytes)

Can you elaborate on exactly what you have in mind? You seem to want something different from Python 3 str, Python 3 bytes and Python 2 str, but it's far from clear what you want this type to be like.

-- Greg

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