10 May
2007
10 May
'07
6:26 p.m.
I actually disagree with that. It is fairly easy to include non-ASCII characters in a raw Unicode string - just type them in.
That violates the convention used in many places that source code should only contain printable ASCII, and all non-ASCII or unprintable characters should be written using \x or \u escapes.
Following that convention: How do you get a non-ASCII byte into a raw byte string in Python 2.x? You can't - so why should you be able to get a non-ASCII character into a raw Unicode string? Regards, Martin