[Python-Dev] Re: Python 1.6a2 Unicode bug (was Re: comparing strings and ints)

[Fredrik Lundh]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal at lemburg.com> wrote:
> Please note that the support for mixing strings and Unicode
> objects is really only there to aid porting applications
> to Unicode.
>
> New code should use Unicode directly and apply all needed
> conversions explicitly using one of the many ways to
> encode or decode Unicode data. The auto-conversions are
> only there to help out and provide some convenience.

does this mean that the 8-bit string type is deprecated ???

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