comparing Unicode and string

[luc.saffre at gmail.com]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> Why?  Python strings are *byte strings* and bytes have values in the range
> 0..255.  Why would you restrict them to ASCII only?

Because getting an exception when comparing a string with a unicode
string is irritating.

But I don't insist on my PEP. The example just shows just another
pitfall with Unicode and why I'll advise to any beginner: Never write
text constants that contain non-ascii chars as simple strings, always
make them Unicode strings by prepending the "u".

Luc