Variables versus name bindings [Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.]

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:57 -0400, Dave Angel wrote:

> On 06/17/2013 08:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>     <SNIP>
>>
>> In Python 3.2 and older, the data will be either UTF-4 or UTF-8,
>> selected when the Python compiler itself is compiled.
> 
> I think that was a typo.  Do you perhaps UCS-2 or UCS-4

Yes, that would be better.

UCS-2 is identical to UTF-16, except it doesn't support non-BMP 
characters and therefore doesn't have surrogate pairs.

UCS-4 is functionally equivalent to UTF-16, as far as I can tell. (I'm 
not really sure what the difference is.)


-- 
Steven