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[Python-Dev] just say no...

[Python-Dev] just say no...Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:43:12 +0100
> > > Besides, the Unicode object will have a buffer containing the
> > > <default encoding> representation of the object, which, if all goes
> > > well, will always hold the UTF-8 value.
> > 
> > <rant>
> > 
> > over my dead body, that one...
> 
> Such a buffer is needed to implement "s" and "s#" argument
> parsing. It's a simple requirement to support those two
> parsing markers -- there's not much to argue about, really...

why?  I don't understand why "s" and "s#" has
to deal with encoding issues at all...

> unless, of course, you want to give up Unicode object support
> for all APIs using these parsers.

hmm.  maybe that's exactly what I want...

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