[Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 9 January 2014 04:50, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be honest, you can define text as "A stream of bytes that are split
> up in lines separated by a linefeed", and do some basic text
> processing like that. Just very *basic*, but still. Replacing
> characters. Extracting certain lines etc.

That is, until you hit a character which has a byte with the same
value of ASCII newline in the middle of a multi-byte character.

So, this approach is broken to start with.