python 2.7 and unicode (one more time)

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> Then you need to read more about Unicode. The *codepoint* for the
>> letter 'A' is 65. That is not Unicode, that is one part of the Unicode
>> spec.
>
> I don't think Python users need to know anything more about Unicode than
> they need to know about IEEE-754.
>
> How many bits are reserved for the mantissa? I don't remember and I
> don't see why I should care.

At what point can a Python float no longer represent every integer?
That's why you should care.

ChrisA