Hi, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > Whether it > makes it easier to make the entire parser operate on unicode I don't > know (would there be a performance impact?)
Not much of an impact, there is so much happening in between that you won't notice the encoding/decoding steps. At least in Py2.5, byte strings and unicode strings are similarly fast. > As for making docstrings unicode in Python 2, I think this is a bad > idea because some programs extract and manipulate them at runtime and > will be expecting Strings. I'd rather think that any tool that does not know how to deal with unicode strings as doc-strings is broken in Py2 already. It's not uncommon to have them, it's just not the default. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
