How to turn a string into a list of integers?

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/8/2014 1:44 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> The original question was regarding storage - how PEP 393 says that
>> strings will be encoded in memory in any of three ways (Latin-1,
>> UCS-2/UTF-16, or UCS-4/UTF-32). But even in our world, that is not
>> what a string *is*, but only what it is made of.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that kind of CPython implementation detail would go
> into a PEP. I had thought PEPs codified Python independently of CPython.

There are multiple PEP that are not strictly about Python the language: 
meta-peps, informational peps, and others about the cpython api, 
implementation, and distribution issues. 393 is followed by
397  Python launcher for Windows  Hammond, v. Löwis
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/

The PEP process is a tool for the core development team and the product 
is documentation of decisions and actions thereby

> But maybe CPython is to Python what England is to the UK: even the
> government is having a hard time making a distinction.

We don't.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy