Python - Next Release Questions

[Fredrik Lundh]

Will Ware wrote:
> It sounds like there will be two distinct kinds of strings, Unicode
> and ASCII. Do the memory savings available from keeping 8-bit ASCII
> around justify the potential confusion? It seems like a messy thing,
> and there are so few messy things in Python now.

the existing string type is both a *8-bit text string* type and
a *binary data buffer* type.  and in the second case, performance
issues are rather important...

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