Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:52:13 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Both Python2 and Python3 provide two forms of string, one containing >> 8-bit integers and another one containing 21-bit integers. > > Why do you insist on making counter-factual statements as facts? Don't > you have a Python REPL you can try these outrageous claims out before > making them? > > [...] > > Python strings are sequences of abstract characters.
which -- by your definition -- are codepoints -- which by any definition -- are integers. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list