[Python-ideas] '' in 'abc' == True

[Georg Brandl]

On 07/18/2012 09:32 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Masklinn wrote:
>> On 2012-07-18, at 20:06 , Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>>>> A Python string, you may want to note, is a string. Not a sequence of
>>>> characters.
>>> It's both (with the caveat that, in Python, a character is just a
>>> string of length 1).
>> 
>> That's playing with words, especially comparing strings with Python 3
>> binaries which *do* actually have a separate "character" type
>> (reified to an integer).
> 
> Python 3 does not have a 'character' type; it has 'str' which is made up 
> of more 'str's, and it has 'byte' which is made up of 'int's (annoyingly).

That's what he said.  Could we stop the annoying "but I know it better
than you without reading your message" please?

Georg