On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > For anyone working with unicode instead of ascii...
Which, frankly, should be everyone. You can't get away with assuming that a character is a byte any more; even if you stick to the US, you're going to run into some non-ASCII symbols sooner or later. Of course, you can work with UTF-8, which means that anything that fits into 7-bit ASCII will be represented as itself; but you still need to be aware of the difference between 'bytes' and 'str' (or between 'str' and 'unicode'). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
