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

[Andrew Svetlov]

Masklinn's explanation is comprehensive clean to me.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 09:32 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> 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).
>
> That's what he said.  Could we stop the annoying "but I know it better
> than you without reading your message" please?
>
> Georg
>
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Thanks,
Andrew Svetlov