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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Oct 3 16:39:54 CEST 2005


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> > > A good rule of thumb is to convert to unicode everything that is
> > > semantically textual
> >
> > and isn't pure ASCII.
>
> How can you be sure that something that is /semantically textual/ will
> always remain "pure ASCII" ?

"is" != "will always remain"

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