Removing Unicode from Python?

[George Kinney]

 There is no way that a byte can not be
> between 0 and 255 right? This problem can be so haunting that I will
> start to wish I had coded the solution in VB where at least a string
> is a string is a string. Is there a way to modify Python so that all
> strings will always be single byte strings since we have no need for
> Unicode support? Any solutions or suggestions to my biggest Python
> annoyance would be greatly appreciated.

All MS products use unicode strings. All the time.  Its integral to
the OS and all its libraries.

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.