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

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/25/05, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> I think he was more interested in the invariant Martin proposed, that
>
>  len("\U00010000")
>
> should always be the same and should always be 1.

Yes but why? What does this invariant do for him?

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