On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > So from reading all this discussion, I think this point is rather a key > one... and it has been made repeatedly in different ways: Arrays are not > suitable for manipulating Unicode character sequences, and the str type is > an array with a veneer of text manipulation operations, which do not, and > cannot, by themselves, efficiently implement Unicode character sequences.
I think this is too strong. The str type is indeed an array, and you can build useful Unicode manipulation APIs on top of it. Just like bytes are not UTF-8, but can be used to represent UTF-8 and a fully-compliant UTF-8 codec can be implemented on top of it. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
