Gilles Ganault <nos...@nospam.com> writes: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:03:47 +1000, Ben Finney > <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > >The principles of handling text in Python: Get it to internal Unicode > >objects as soon as possible, handle it as Unicode for as long as > >possible, and only encode it to some byte stream for output as late as > >possible. > > Thanks much for the tip. I'll keep that in mind when I have strings > with accents.
Again, note that these recommendations hold for *any* text in Python, with or without accents; once you accept that text is best handled in Unicode, there's little sense in making an exception for the limited subset that happens to be representable in ASCII. -- \ “The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to | `\ Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
