[Python-ideas] Smoothing transition to Python 3

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

> *Emacs has two concrete types: "byte strings" which can contain no
> non-ASCII characters, and "unicode strings" which use UTF-8 (plus those
> extra code points)


Uhm, I'm confused, isn't the exactly what py3 has now? byte strings and
unicode strings?

_maybe_ you want a little more interoperability, but those types are there.

-CHB



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