[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>   This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep track of text too and the functions which seemed to work on bytes no longer do.

Thanks Glyph.  That is a nice summary of one kind of challenge facing programmers.


Raymond

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