On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Elliot Gorokhovsky < elliot.gorokhov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:51 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> But this isn't relevant to Python's str, because Python's str never uses >> UTF-8. >> > > Really? I thought in python 3, strings are all unicode... so what encoding > do they use, then? > No encoding is used. The actual code points are stored as integers of the same size. If all code points are less than 256, they are stored as 8-bit integers (bytes). If some code points are greater or equal to 256 but less than 65536, they are stored as 16-bit integers and so on.
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