Hi, ezio.melotti wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/11d18ebb2dd1 > changeset: 73116:11d18ebb2dd1 > user: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> > date: Tue Oct 25 09:23:42 2011 +0300 > summary: > #13251: update string description in datamodel.rst. > > files: > Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 20 ++++++++++---------- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst > --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst > +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst > @@ -276,16 +276,16 @@ > single: integer > single: Unicode > > - The items of a string object are Unicode code units. A Unicode code > - unit is represented by a string object of one item and can hold > either > - a 16-bit or 32-bit value representing a Unicode ordinal (the maximum > - value for the ordinal is given in ``sys.maxunicode``, and depends on > - how Python is configured at compile time). Surrogate pairs may be > - present in the Unicode object, and will be reported as two separate > - items. The built-in functions :func:`chr` and :func:`ord` convert > - between code units and nonnegative integers representing the Unicode > - ordinals as defined in the Unicode Standard 3.0. Conversion from > and to > - other encodings are possible through the string method > :meth:`encode`. > + A string is a sequence of values that represent Unicode codepoints. > + All the codepoints in range ``U+0000 - U+10FFFF`` can be represented > + in a string. Python doesn't have a :c:type:`chr` type, and > + every characters in the string is represented as a string object typo ^
Should be "character", right? > + with length ``1``. The built-in function :func:`chr` converts a > + character to its codepoint (as an integer); :func:`ord` converts > + an integer in range ``0 - 10FFFF`` to the corresponding character. Actually chr() converts an integer to a string and ord() converts a string to an integer. chr and ord are swapped in your text. > + :meth:`str.encode` can be used to convert a :class:`str` to > + :class:`bytes` using the given encoding, and :meth:`bytes.decode` > can > + be used to achieve the opposite. Petri _______________________________________________ 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
