Removing Unicode from Python?

[Alex Martelli]

Brian Quinlan wrote:

>> All MS products use unicode strings. All the time.  Its integral to
>> the OS and all its libraries.
> 
> This statement is obviously false.

It's slightly exaggerated, yes.  But it's basically true of COM
and dotNET (just as it is of Java).


>> VB and other MS offspring allow you to ignore that fact,  but they
>> don't make it go away.
>> 
>> Python is just doing what it should do: handle unicode strings as
> unicode
>> strings.
> 
> But the SQL Server "text" type is not a Unicode type.

When you access SQL Server via a COM interface, you'll get BSTR's
(which are COM's most normal "strings", and VB's) -- i.e., Unicode.


Alex