On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:07:09 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > * Python requires every programmer to know, or quickly learn, the basics > of Unicode: to know that text is not, and never will be again, > synonymous with a sequence of bytes.
If only the Python developers would learn the same lesson ... Some of them are so hooked on Unicode that they won't accept that sometimes a sequence of bytes really is just a sequence of bytes. Primary example: most of the POSIX API. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list