Re: Why Python has moved to a multilingual Unicode model (OT)

2014-09-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/10/2014 1:57 PM, mm0fmf wrote: On 10/09/2014 14:27, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [quoted trollpost deleted] By quoting spam and trolls, you become a spam/troll distributor yourself, and thrust same before people who missed (or blocked) the original. Please don't do this. Best to complete

Re: Why Python has moved to a multilingual Unicode model (OT)

2014-09-10 Thread mm0fmf
On 10/09/2014 14:27, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: A "multilingual Unicode model" has not too much sense. You are Pavlov's Dog AICMFP ;-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Why Python has moved to a multilingual Unicode model

2014-09-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Many Python 2 users (mostly English speakers, but also a few Europeans) are frustrated with the move of Python 3 to Unicode strings instead of ASCII strings. One of the core Python developers, Nick Coghlan of Red Hat, has written an article for the Red Hat Developer Blog explaining why the core de