"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, what Willie was concerned about was some cockamamie DBMS > which required to be fed Unicode, which it encoded as UTF-8,
Yeah, I remember that. > Tell you what, why don't you and Willie get together and write a PEP? If enough people care about the problem, I'd say just submit a code patch. I haven't needed it myself, but I haven't (so far) had to deal with unicode that often. It's a reasonably logical thing to want. Imagine if the normal length(string) function required copying the string around. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
