[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/4/2014 6:52 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

> "Well" is subjective (or should be defined formally based on the
> requirements). With my MicroPython hat on, an implementation which
> receives a string, transcodes it, leading to bigger size, just to
> immediately transcode back and send out - is awful, environment
> unfriendly implementation ;-).

I am not sure what you concretely mean by 'receive a string', but I 
think you are again batting at a strawman. If you mean 'read from a 
file', and all you want to do is read bytes from and write bytes to 
external 'files', then there is obviously no need to transcode and 
neither Python 2 or 3 make you do so.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy