Jim Jewett added the comment: I think the new wording is an improvement, but keeping the changes minimal left it in an awkward in-between state.
Proposal: A string is a sequence of Unicode code points. Strings can include any sequence of code points, including some which are semantically meaningless, or explicitly undefined. Python doesn't have a :c:type:`char` type; a single code point is represented as a string of length ``1``. The built-in function :func:`chr` translates an integer in the range ``U+0000 - U+10FFFF`` to the corresponding length ``1`` string object, and :func:`ord` does the reverse. :meth:`str.encode` provides a concrete representation (as :class:`bytes` in the given text encoding) suitable for transport and communication with non-Python utilities. :meth:`bytes.decode` decodes such byte sequences into text strings. ---------- nosy: +Jim.Jewett _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21667> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
