Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > Why? Python strings are *byte strings* and bytes have values in the range > 0..255. Why would you restrict them to ASCII only?
Because getting an exception when comparing a string with a unicode string is irritating. But I don't insist on my PEP. The example just shows just another pitfall with Unicode and why I'll advise to any beginner: Never write text constants that contain non-ascii chars as simple strings, always make them Unicode strings by prepending the "u". Luc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
