Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,

Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings.  Nor are 
they always UCS-2 (or partly UTF-16) strings.  Nor are the always 
Latin-1 or Ascii strings.  Python's Flexible String Representation uses 
the narrowest possible internal code for any particular string.  This is 
all transparent to the user except for memory size.

In 3.2 and before, Python's Unicode strings were either wide (UFT-32) or 
narrow (UCS-2 + surrogates or UFT-16 minus full compliance).  The 
difference was sometimes not transparent, and code that worked on one 
build could fail on the other.  Since 3.3, string code should work the 
same on any machines running the same Python version.

> UTF-32, after all, is a variable-width encoding.

Nope.  It a fixed-width (32 bits, 4 bytes) encoding.

Perhaps you should ask more questions before pontificating.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy