> > > Because of this, the Python 3 str type is not suitable to store an email > > > message, since it insists on the string being Unicode encoded, > > > > I should greatly appreciate to be enlightened as to what > > a "string being Unicode encoded" is intended to say ? > > > > A Python 3 "str" or a Python 2 "unicode" is an abstract sequence of > Unicode codepoints.
OK, I figured that much. So it was the "encoded" that threw me off. Being a sequence of Unicode codepoints makes it en-Uni-coded at a technically abstract level while I assumed the "encoded" is meant to somehow reference ''.encode() and friends. Karsten -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list