Article on the future of Python

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 17:54:04 UTC+2, Ian a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano
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> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
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> >> Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed
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> >> into an "American" product for "American" users.
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> > For the first time in Python's history, Python on 32-bit systems handles
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> > strings containing Supplementary Multilingual Plane characters correctly,
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> > and it does so without doubling or quadrupling the amount of memory every
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> > single string takes up.
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> Indeed.  Here's an interesting article about Unicode handling that
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> identifies Python 3.3 as one of only four programming languages that
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> handle Unicode correctly (the other three being Bash, Haskell 98, and
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> Scheme R6RS).
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> http://unspecified.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/the-importance-of-language-level-abstract-unicode-strings/

May I suggest, you dive in the TeX documentation (sometimes,
no so easy to find quickly).

In my mind much better than all these web pages around. The big
plus, you will also understand "characters" as whole.

jmf