[Python-Dev] PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/22/2011 3:28 PM, Philip Jenvey wrote:

> One reason to target 3.2 for now is it's not a moving target.

Neither is the basic design and behavior of the new unicode 
implementation. On 3.2 narrow builds, including Windows

 >>> len('\U00010101')
2

With 3.3, the answer will be, properly, 1. I suspect that becoming 
compatible with that, and all that it implies for many other examples, 
will be the biggest hurdle for PyPy becoming compatible with 3.3.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy