[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Re: AlternativeImplementation forPEP292:SimpleString Substitutions

[Fredrik Lundh]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> The whole point in adding Unicode to the language was to make
> the difference between text and binary data clear and visible
> at the type level.

well, when I wrote the Unicode type, the whole point was to be able to
make it easy to handle Unicode text.  no more, no less.

> If we start to store text data in Unicode now and leave binary
> data in 8-bit strings, then the move to Unicode strings literals
> will be much smoother in P3k.

hopefully, the P3K string design will take a lot more into account than
text-vs-binary; there are many ways to represent text, and many ways
to store binary data, and many usage patterns for them both.  a good
design should take most of this into account.  (google for "stringlib" for
some work I'm doing in this area)

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