On 15/07/2014 18:38, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>:
Fine. Tell me how you would go about adding true Unicode support to
Python 2.7, while still having it able to import an unchanged program.
Trick question - it's fundamentally impossible, because an unchanged
program will not distinguish between bytes and text, but true Unicode
support requires that they be distinguished.
Python 2 has always had unicode strings and [byte] strings. They were
always clearly distinguished. You really didn't have to change anything
for "true Unicode support".
That is the funniest tongue in cheek comment I've read in the 10+ years
I''ve been hanging around here. It was tongue in cheek, wasn't it?
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