[Python-Dev] Normalizing unicode? (was: Re: test_unicode_file failing on Mac OS X)

[Martin v. Löwis]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> > (or we could just leave things as they are now, and force people to do 
> > any normalization themselves. :) )
> 
> Do we even have normalization code in core Python?

Yes, in unicodedata.normalize, since 2.3.

I agree that having == operate as if strings where normalized is
undesirable.

Regards,
Martin