On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:54:45AM -0600, Jerry Spicklemire wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. > Dan, re: > > "I think you mostly don't want u'foo' in 3.x or b'foo' in 2.x" > > Actually, I don't want either, anywhere. > > If UTF8 is used internally, and ASCII is > already UTF8, then it is all UTF8, so ...
If you're not writing libs, you only need b'' in Python3 -- bytes and binary data is not utf8; you need bytes for files, networks, compression, etc and in Python3 you'll get errors where you try to use strings in places that need bytes... I think the time where you could work just in ascii is pretty much gone -- even in the US, people use emoji all over the place now, and you can only store such things using some form of unicode. m -- Matt Billenstein m...@vazor.com http://www.vazor.com/ _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
