[Python-Dev] Unicode docs

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Tim Peters writes:
 > The latter addresses several *fundamental* questions untouched by
 > the former, like whar are the datatypes of the arguments and the
 > result, what values does errors accept, and what do they mean?  The
 > first blurb answers some more, like what's the default encoding,
 > and which exception is raised?  Neither is complete on its own, but
 > the reference manual should have a complete answer to all such
 > questions.  It doesn't have to go on at great length.

  I've beefed up the desciption of the unicode() function by merging
the information from AMK's document.

 > A round-trip example would be invaluable.
 > 
 > If Fred wanted to incorporate a brief overview too, a light rework of
 > Andrew/Moshe's writeup would be an excellent start.

  I'd love to have a contribution from someone with more knowledge of
what's there than me.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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