Guido van Rossum: > Folks, please focus on what Python 3000 should do. > > I'm thinking about making all character strings Unicode (possibly with > different internal representations a la NSString in Apple's Objective > C) and introduce a separate mutable bytes array data type. But I could > use some validation or feedback on this idea from actual > practitioners.
I'd like to more tightly define Unicode strings for Python 3000. Currently, Unicode strings may be implemented with either 2 byte (UCS-2) or 4 byte (UTF-32) elements. Python should allow strings to contain any Unicode character and should be indexable yielding characters rather than half characters. Therefore Python strings should appear to be UTF-32. There could still be multiple implementations (using UTF-16 or UTF-8) to preserve space but all implementations should appear to be the same apart from speed and memory use. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
