python for everyday tasks

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Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 03:01:26 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
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> * Python 3 (although not Python 2) is one of the few languages that get 
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> Unicode *right*. Strings in Python 3 are text, sequences of Unicode 
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> characters, not a thinly disguised blob of bytes. Starting with Python 
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> 3.3, Python does away with the difference between "narrow builds" (which 
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> save memory at the expense of correctness) and "wide builds" (which give 
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> correct Unicode behaviour at the cost of memory). Instead, Python 3.3 now 
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> has optimized strings that use only as much memory as needed. Pure ASCII 
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> strings will use 1 byte per character, while Unicode strings use 1, 2 or 
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> 4 bytes per character as needed. And it all happens transparently.
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[topic beeing more of less closed]

Your paragraph is mixing different concepts.

When it comes to save memory, utf-8 is the choice. It
beats largely the FSR on the side of memory and on
the side of performances.

How and why? I suggest, you have a deeper understanding
of unicode.

May I recall, it is one of the coding scheme endorsed
by "Unicode.org" and it is intensively used. This is not
by chance.

jmf