Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:21:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Guido's mantra is something like "Python's str doesn't contain
> > characters or even code points[1], it contains code units."
>
> But is that true?
It's not. That's why I wrote the slight
Jeff Allen writes:
> This feels like a jython-dev discussion. But anyway ...
Well, if the same representation could be used in Jython you could
just point to PEP 383 and be done with it.
> u'\udc83' in u'abc\U00010083xyz'
IMHO being able to type that is a bug. There should be no literal
nota
Am 17.09.14 10:56, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:21:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>> Guido's mantra is something like "Python's str doesn't contain
>> characters or even code points[1], it contains code units."
>
> But is that true?
It used to be true, and stop
Seriously, can this discussion move somewhere else?
This has nothing to do on python-dev.
Thank you
Antoine.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:56:02 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:21:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Guido's mantra is something like "Python's str
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:21:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Guido's mantra is something like "Python's str doesn't contain
> characters or even code points[1], it contains code units."
But is that true? If it were true, I would expect to be able to make
Python text strings containing
This feels like a jython-dev discussion. But anyway ...
On 17/09/2014 00:57, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
The CPython representation uses trailing surrogates only[1], so it's
never possible to interpret them as anything but non-characters -- as
soon as you encounter them you know that it's a lone
Sorry for the mojibake. I've not yet gotten around to actually using
the email package to write a smarter replacement for nmh, which is what
I use for email, and I always forget that I need to manually tell nmh
when there non-ascii in the message...
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:02:33 -0400, "R. David M
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:42:56 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:14:15AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:29 AM, R. David Murray
> > wrote:
>
> > > Basically, we are pretending that the each smuggled
> > > byte is single character for string pars
