Article on the future of Python

wxjmfauth at gmail.com wxjmfauth at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 15:09:37 EDT 2012


This flexible string representation is wrong by design.
Expecting to divide "Unicode" in chunks and to gain something
is an illusion.
It has been created by a computer scientist who thinks "bytes"
when on that field one has to think "bytes" and usage of the
characters at the same time.
The latin-1 chunk illustrates this wonderfully.

jmf




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