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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> Please bear with me for a few paragraphs ;-)

Please note that source code encoding doesn't really have
anything to do with the way the interpreter executes the
program - it's merely a way to tell the parser how to
convert string literals (currently on the Unicode ones)
into constant Unicode objects within the program text.
It's also a nice way to let other people know what kind of
encoding you used to write your comments ;-)

Nothing more.

Once a module is compiled, there's no distinction between
a module using the latin-1 source code encoding or one using
the utf-8 encoding.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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