[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Nick Coghlan]

On 5 June 2014 22:10, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In this regard, I'm glad to participate in mind-resetting discussion.
>> So, let's reiterate - there's nothing like "the best", "the only right",
>> "the only correct", "righter than", "more correct than" in CPython's
>> implementation of Unicode storage. It is *arbitrary*. Well, sure, it's
>> not arbitrary, but based on requirements, and these requirements match
>> CPython's (implied) usage model well enough. But among all possible
>> sets of requirements, CPython's requirements are no more valid that
>> other possible. And other set of requirement fairly clearly lead to
>> situation where CPython implementation is rejected as not correct for
>> those requirements at all.
>
> Several core-devs have said that using UTF-8 for MicroPython is perfectly okay.
> I also think it's the right choice and I hope that you guys come up with a very
> efficient implementation.

Based on this discussion , I've also posted a draft patch aimed at
clarifying the relevant aspects of the data model section of the
language reference (http://bugs.python.org/issue21667).

Cheers,
Nick.

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