Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment:
> AIUI (though I could be misunderstanding things) `str` objects do use some > kind of typed array of unicode characters (either 16-bit narrow or 32-bit > wide). It's somewhat more complicated. The string data is stored differently depending on the maximum code point in the string. See PEP 393. The "kind" field describes this as: 1 byte (Latin-1) 2 byte (UCS-2) 4 byte (UCS-4) ---------- nosy: +eric.smith _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
