On 6/20/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, not everyone dealing with text is dealing with line-delimited > > text, you know... > > It's really the only difference between text and non-text.
Text is a sequence of characters. Non-text is a sequence of bytes. Characters may be multi-byte. It is no longer an ASCII world. -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises LLC _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com