11 May
2007
11 May
'07
7:34 a.m.
On 5/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis"
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?
Fair enough. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)