>>> My question is: what is that encoding? >> The internal representation is either UTF-16, or UTF-32; which one is >> a compile-time choice (i.e. when the Python interpreter is built). > > Wait, I thought it was UCS-2 or UCS-4? Or am I misremembering the > countless threads about the distinction between UTF and UCS?
You are not misremembering. I personally never found them conclusive, and, with PEP 261, I think, calling the 2-byte version "UCS-2" is incorrect. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
