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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-22 19:52, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.

I was just explaining where the whole notion of encoding
and decoding originates and how the meaning of the .encode()
and .decode() methods came to be.

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