On Mar 16, 9:09 am, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > On 16/03/2013 02:44, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > >> Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Thomas and Chris, would the two of you be kind enough to explain to morons > > such as myself how all the ECMAScript stuff relates to Python's unicode as > > implemented via PEP 393 as you've lost me, easily done I know. > > Sure. Here's the brief version: It's all about how a string is exposed > to a script. > > * Python 3.2 Narrow gives you UTF-16. Non-BMP characters count twice. > * Python 3.2 Wide gives you UTF-32. Each character counts once. > * Python 3.3 gives you UTF-32, but will store it as compactly as possible.
Framing issue here (made famous by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ George_Lakoff) When one uses words like 'compact' 'flexible' etc it loads the dice in favour of 3.3 choices. And ignores that 3.3 trades time for space. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list