On 2008-05-22 19:52, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg writes:
> On 2008-05-22 13:58, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
> >> It's all a matter of perspective. You can say you're encoding Latin-1
> >> to Unicode, or you can say your encoding Unicode to Latin-1.
> >
> > Except that Latin-1 is an encoding while Unicode is not.
>
> Well, yes and no :-)
>
> Unicode does encode a way to describe code points.
I don't think this is a useful POV in the context of Python, where
'unicode' is a primitive type, and not implemented as an array of
(Python) integers.
Agreed.
I was just explaining where the whole notion of encoding
and decoding originates and how the meaning of the .encode()
and .decode() methods came to be.
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