On 17/07/13 19:05, Terry Reedy wrote:
Saying that input arguments can be "Unicode strings as well as 8-bit strings' (the wording is from 2.x, carried over to 3.x) does not necessary exclude other inputs.
"8-bit strings" seems somewhat ambiguous to me. In UTF-8, many Unicode strings are 8-bit, as they can be with Python 3.3's flexible string format. I prefer to stick to Unicode or text string, versus byte string. Pedants who point out that "byte" does not necessarily mean 8-bits, and therefore we should talk about octets, will be slapped with a large halibut :-) -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
