Aw: Re: Re: Another 2 to 3 mail encoding problem

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > > Because of this, the Python 3 str type is not suitable to store an email
> > > message, since it insists on the string being Unicode encoded,
> >
> > I should greatly appreciate to be enlightened as to what
> > a "string being Unicode encoded" is intended to say ?
> >
>
> A Python 3 "str" or a Python 2 "unicode" is an abstract sequence of
> Unicode codepoints.

OK, I figured that much. So it was the "encoded" that threw me off.

Being a sequence of Unicode codepoints makes it en-Uni-coded at
a technically abstract level while I assumed the "encoded" is meant
to somehow reference ''.encode() and friends.

Karsten