On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:41 AM Matt Billenstein via pypy-dev <
pypy-dev@python.org> wrote:
> You can think of 'u' as being the default in python3 where 'b' was the
> default in python2 (not ascii) - but most stdlib functions would accept
> bytes as strings.
>
> So in python3, you don't need 'u'
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:08:49AM -0600, Jerry Spicklemire wrote:
> In other words, within the range of ASCII characters, the UTF8 representation
> is identical to the ASCII representation. So, does that mean we can put the
> 'u'
> and 'b' prefix nightmares behind us? It would help some diehards
To expand Armin's answer, the two most "visible" effects for end users are:
- some_unicode.encode('utf-8') is essentially for free (because it is
already UTF-8 internally)
- some_bytes.decode('utf-8') is very chep (it just needs to check that
some_bytes is valid utf-8)
ciao,
Anto
On Wed, Feb 26
Hi Jerry,
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 16:09, Jerry Spicklemire wrote:
> Is there a tutorial about how to best take advantage of PyPy's internal UTF8?
For best or for worse, this is only an internal feature. It has no
effect for the end user. In particular, Python programs written for
PyPy3.6 and fo
Is there a tutorial about how to best take advantage of PyPy's internal
UTF8?
The docs say the PyPy now uses UTF8 internally to represent unicode.
So, for an old codger, that sounds like were are back to a point where
ASCII
characters just act normally again, like in Python v.2, since ASCII IS
UT
Hi again,
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 14:28, Armin Rigo wrote:
> In particular the first escaped character \Uf44f really should be
> two characters, '\x92O', and there is similar mangling later. Also
> the first of the two unicodes is much shorter on CPython3. Finally,
> the very last character
Hi Matti,
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 11:59, Matti Picus wrote:
> - check what pypy3 returns for time.tzname? There is no code to decode
> it, so it is probably a sting of bytes. What encoding is it in?
On a french Windows I get, in CPython 3.6, a tuple of two unicodes
that seem correct; and on PyPy3
Someone on stackoverflow asked why PyPy cannot run pandas. Here is the
error, reformatted from the garbled original:
https://gist.github.com/mattip/374e8ba49e2dd2e2b0d5c46a5cd612ed
While there was an off-by-one error with the conversion when building
time.tzname from the OS c call, I think th
