On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 06:41 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Lisp has a noncanonical textual representation just like Python. > > Python has a noncanonical textual representation? > > What is a noncanonical textual representation, and where can I see some?
I think what Marko means is that there is a textual way to represent Python source code, and there are multiple files that represent identical Python programs, hence "noncanonical". If you have two UTF-8 encoded files that contain the same text, they will have the exact same bytes in them, because UTF-8 defines a canonical byte representation for text. You can't say that about Python source. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list