Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

Jon Ribbens jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk
Wed Mar 9 21:38:15 EST 2016


On 2016-03-10, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Jon Ribbens
><jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 2016-03-09, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Then *get interested*. Unicode is the only way that you'll ever not be
>>> parochially bound to a subset of English - or, worse, bound to an
>>> arbitrary eight-bit codepage that you don't even control the choice
>>> of, such that your program behaves differently on different systems.
>>> FIX YOUR LANGUAGE and support non-English text.
>>
>> You can't even support English text properly without Unicode.
>> Plenty of English words use non-ASCII characters:
>> café, crêpe, façade, naïve, dæmon, etc.
>
> Like I said, a subset of English.

I profusely apologise for so rudely agreeing with you.



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