[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFEfor review)

[Michael Chermside]

M A Lemburg writes:
> we should use strings and Unicode
> like they are supposed to be used (in the context of text
> data):
>
> * strings are fine for text data that is encoded using
>   the default encoding
>
> * Unicode should be used for all text data that is not
>   or cannot be encoded in the default encoding
>
> Later on in Py3k, all text data should be stored in Unicode
> and all binary data in some new binary type.

Wow. That is the most succinct and clear explanation of how to
use unicode in Python that I think I've ever heard. It might
even be simple enough for _me_ to understand it! I think I'm
going to go frame this and have it posted in my cubical.

-- Michael Chermside