Am 17.09.14 10:56, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:21:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> Guido's mantra is something like "Python's str doesn't contain >> characters or even code points[1], it contains code units." > > But is that true?
It used to be true, and stopped being so with PEP 393. In particular, Python 3.2 and before would expose UTF-16 in the narrow build, so the elements of a string would be code units. Since Python 3.3, the surrogate code points are not longer interpreted as UTF-16 code units. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
