[Python-ideas] '' in 'abc' == True

[Ethan Furman]

Masklinn wrote:
> On 2012-07-18, at 20:06 , Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>>> A Python string, you may want to note, is a string. Not a sequence of
>>> characters.
>> It's both (with the caveat that, in Python, a character is just a
>> string of length 1).
> 
> That's playing with words, especially comparing strings with Python 3
> binaries which *do* actually have a separate "character" type
> (reified to an integer).

Python 3 does not have a 'character' type; it has 'str' which is made up 
of more 'str's, and it has 'byte' which is made up of 'int's (annoyingly).

~Ethan~