Greg Ewing schrieb: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> why should you be able to get a non-ASCII character >> into a raw Unicode string? > > The analogous question would be why can't you get a > non-Unicode character into a raw Unicode string.
No, that would not be analogous. The string type in Python is not an ASCII string type, but a byte string type. It does not necessarily only hold ASCII characters, but can (and, in hundreds of applications) does hold arbitrary bytes. There is (in the non-raw form) support of filling arbitrary bytes into a byte string literal. So no, this is not analogous. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
