On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:40:00 -0800, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Adam E wrote:
I have read in my copy of Programming Python that all strings will be
Unicode and there will be a byte type.
Actually that change is scheduled for 3.0.
Yes, but it's available in 2.6 as well:
Python 2.6+ (trunk:66997, Oct 23 2008, 16:02:09)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> type('')
<type 'str'>
>>> type(u'')
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type(b'')
<type 'str'>
>>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>> type('')
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type(u'')
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type(b'')
<type 'str'>
>>>
Jean-Paul
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