On 5/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I actually disagree with that. It is fairly easy to include non-ASCII > >> characters in a raw Unicode string - just type them in. > > > > That violates the convention used in many places that source code > > should only contain printable ASCII, and all non-ASCII or unprintable > > characters should be written using \x or \u escapes. > > Following that convention: How do you get a non-ASCII byte into > a raw byte string in Python 2.x? > > You can't - so why should you be able to get a non-ASCII character > into a raw Unicode string?
Fair enough. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com