On 6/13/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rauli Ruohonen writes: > > > What I meant is that the stdlib should only have string operations > > that effectively work on (1) sequences of code units or (2) > > sequences of code points, and that the choice between these two > > should be made reasonably. > > I think we've reached a dead end. AIUI, that's a matter for a PEP, > and the window for Python 3 is closed. I'm pretty sure that Python 3 > is going to have sequences of code units only (I know, Guido said > "code points", but I doubt he's read TR#17), except that people will > sneak in some UTF-16 behavior where it seems useful. > > Until one or more of the senior developers says otherwise, I'm going > to assume that.
Yeah, what's the difference between code units and points? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
