[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions).

[Fredrik Lundh]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> A good rule of thumb is to convert to unicode everything that is
> semantically textual

and isn't pure ASCII.

(anyone who are tempted to argue otherwise should benchmark their
applications, both speed- and memorywise, and be prepared to come
up with very strong arguments for why python programs shouldn't be
allowed to be fast and memory-efficient whenever they can...)

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