Stefan Behnel wrote: > > I guess you can't afford to wait for Python 3, can you? > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/#atomic-types
No need to: just start python with the -U option: Python 2.4.1 (#2, Oct 4 2006, 16:53:35) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2.1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> "æøå" u'\xe6\xf8\xe5' It's just like Jython: Jython 2.1 on java1.5.0_03 (JIT: null) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> "æøå" '\xE6\xF8\xE5' That's a Unicode object, really. Various IronPython users have pointed out similar things, too, but this kind of thing has been going on for about ten years, I guess. Paul
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