[Python-Dev] just say no...

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> > Besides, the Unicode object will have a buffer containing the
> > <default encoding> representation of the object, which, if all goes
> > well, will always hold the UTF-8 value.
> 
> <rant>
> 
> over my dead body, that one...

Such a buffer is needed to implement "s" and "s#" argument
parsing. It's a simple requirement to support those two
parsing markers -- there's not much to argue about, really...
unless, of course, you want to give up Unicode object support
for all APIs using these parsers.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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