Am 04.03.2011 03:21, schrieb Dan Stromberg: > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Martin v. Loewis <mar...@v.loewis.de > <mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de>> wrote: > > That depends on how you chose to represent text in 2.7. > The recommended way for that (also with 3.x in mind) > is that you should use Unicode strings to represent text. > > > For application programming, I'm sure Unicode is usually preferable. > > For systems programming, it's hard for me to imagine that unicode would > normally be favored over bytes.
I think Greg Ewing was really talking about WxPython. For WxPython, I would indeed recommend to represent text as Unicode, although there may be backwards-compatibility concerns to support byte strings in certain places as well. Whether a GUI library is application programming or systems programming, I don't know. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
