Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 8/7/07, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>This would mean that the Unicode type would acquire all of the ambiquity >>currently associated with the 8-bit str type > > Not necessarily, as this kind of use is typically very localized. > Remember practicality beats purity.
Has anyone considered that, depending on the implementation, a latin1-decoded unicode string could take 2-4 times as much memory? -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
