On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 23:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I really don't understand what bothers you about this. In Python, we have > Unicode strings and byte strings. In computing in general, strings can > consist of Unicode characters, ASCII characters, Tron characters, EBCDID > characters, ISO-8859-7 characters, and literally dozens of others. It > boogles my mind that you are so opposed to being explicit about what sort > of string we are dealing with.
I think he means that it should be implementation-defined with an API that does not allow programs to make assumptions about the encoding, like C. To allow for implementations that use a different character set. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list