[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

M.-A. Lemburg writes:
 > On 2008-05-22 13:58, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
 > > M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
 > >> It's all a matter of perspective. You can say you're encoding Latin-1
 > >> to Unicode, or you can say your encoding Unicode to Latin-1.
 > > 
 > > Except that Latin-1 is an encoding while Unicode is not.
 > 
 > Well, yes and no :-)
 > 
 > Unicode does encode a way to describe code points.

I don't think this is a useful POV in the context of Python, where
'unicode' is a primitive type, and not implemented as an array of
(Python) integers.