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		mrweasel on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python 3 is killing Python I think Armin Ronacher has the best overview: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/ But it's basicly Python three killing of the byte-string and ignoring the fact that in some cases it actually makes sense to work with string that are specifically not unicode, rather than resorting to have a bytes type instead.

pekk on May 26, 2014 [–]

I don't see how it is coherent to ask for a string that is not unicode, and not bytes. What is it?

dragonwriter on May 26, 2014 | [–]

A string encoded in some non-unicode encoding.

Not everything in the world is unicode (or unicode compatible the way, say, US-ASCII is.)

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