On 5/10/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > why should you be able to get a non-ASCII character > > into a raw Unicode string? > > The analogous question would be why can't you get a > non-Unicode character into a raw Unicode string. That > wouldn't make sense, since Unicode strings can't even > hold non-Unicode characters (or at least they're not > meant to). > > But it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to put > Unicode characters into a raw Unicode string. After > all, if it only contains ASCII characters there's > no need for it to be a Unicode string in the first > place.
This is what prompted my question, actually: in Py3k, in the str/unicode unification branch, r"\u1234" changes meaning: before the unification, this was an 8-bit string, where the \u was not special, but now it is a unicode string, where \u *is* special. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
