On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ian Bicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> This reminds me of the optimization ElementTree and lxml made in Python 2 > (not sure what they do in Python 3?) where they use str when a string is > ASCII to avoid the memory and performance overhead of unicode. An optimization that forces me to typecheck the return value of the function and that I only discovered after code started breaking. I can't say was enthused about that decision when I discovered it. -Mike _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
