Python 3.2 has some deadly infection

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Fri Jun 6 11:32:39 EDT 2014


Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com>:

> On 06/06/2014 08:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:
>>> ASCII is *not* the state of "this string has no encoding" -- that
>>> would be Unicode; a Unicode string, as a data type, has no encoding.
>> 
>> Huh?
>
> [...]
>
> What part of his statement are you saying "Huh?" about?

Unicode, like ASCII, is a code. Representing text in unicode is
encoding.


Marko



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