[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

[Greg Ewing]

Eric Smith wrote:

> But isn't this currently ignored everywhere in python's code?

It's true that code using a utf-8 build would have to be
aware of the fact much more often. But I'm thinking of
applications that would otherwise want to keep all their
strings encoded to save memory. If they do that, they
also need to deal with sequence items not corresponding
to characters. If they can handle that, they may be able
to handle utf-8 just as well.

-- 
Greg