Python - Next Release Questions

[Will Ware]

Moshe Zadka (moshez at math.huji.ac.il) wrote:
> -- Python now supports unicode. Unicode strings are marked with
>    u"string".
> -- Strings (both unicode and regular) have methods

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.
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