M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Why not also make unicode() the default type constructor and only > keep str() as alias to simplify porting (perhaps with a warning) ?
-1 on making us type 7 characters instead of 3 all over the place. > The term "string" is just too overloaded with all kinds of > misinterpretations. The term "string" just refers to a string of > bytes - a variable length array so to speak. I disagree -- "string" has come to mean "string of characters" unless otherwise qualified. Using one to hold non-characters is just an aberration that was necessary in Python 2 because there wasn't much alternative. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
