On 2014-01-16 14:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The unicode type in Python 2.x is less-good because: > > - it is missing some functionality, e.g. casefold; Just for the record, str.casefold() wasn't added until 3.3, so earlier 3.x versions (such as the 3.2.3 that is the default python3 on Debian Stable) don't have it either. -tkc