comparing Unicode and string

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1161595714.342067.51350 at e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
luc.saffre at gmail.com wrote:

> I didn't mean that the *assignment* should raise exception. I mean that
> any string constant that cannot be decoded using
> sys.getdefaultencoding() should be considered a kind of syntax error.

Why?  Python strings are *byte strings* and bytes have values in the range
0..255.  Why would you restrict them to ASCII only?

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch