Re: [Python-ideas] discontinue iterable strings

2016-08-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nick Coghlan writes: > However, the real problem with this proposal (and the reason why the > switch from 8-bit str to "bytes are effectively a tuple of ints" in > Python 3 was such a pain), is that there are a lot of bytes and text > processing operations that *really do* operate code point b

Re: [Python-ideas] discontinue iterable strings

2016-08-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 22 August 2016 at 19:47, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > > > However, the real problem with this proposal (and the reason why the > > switch from 8-bit str to "bytes are effectively a tuple of ints" in > > Python 3 was such a pain), is that there are a lot of bytes and te