[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Alternative Implementation forPEP292:SimpleString Substitutions

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Sep 10 04:48:56 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:40, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> 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.

Not to mention more consistent with established alternative
implementations of the Python language based on Unicode-only runtimes.

-Barry

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