2to3 and maketrans

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> That depends on how you chose to represent text in 2.7.
> The recommended way for that (also with 3.x in mind)
> is that you should use Unicode strings to represent text.
>

For application programming, I'm sure Unicode is usually preferable.

For systems programming, it's hard for me to imagine that unicode would
normally be favored over bytes.
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