Masklinn's explanation is comprehensive clean to me. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:
On 07/18/2012 09:32 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Masklinn wrote:
On 2012-07-18, at 20:06 , Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Masklinn <masklinn@masklinn.net> wrote:
A Python string, you may want to note, is a string. Not a sequence of characters. It's both (with the caveat that, in Python, a character is just a string of length 1).
That's playing with words, especially comparing strings with Python 3 binaries which *do* actually have a separate "character" type (reified to an integer).
Python 3 does not have a 'character' type; it has 'str' which is made up of more 'str's, and it has 'byte' which is made up of 'int's (annoyingly).
That's what he said. Could we stop the annoying "but I know it better than you without reading your message" please?
Georg
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