In article <503f0e45$0$9416$c3e8da3$76491...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The only thing which is innovative here is that instead of the Python > compiler declaring that "all strings will be stored in UCS-2", the > compiler chooses an implementation for each string as needed. So some > strings will be stored internally as UCS-4, some as UCS-2, and some as > ASCII (which is a standard, but not the Unicode consortium's standard). Is the implementation smart enough to know that x == y is always False if x and y are using different internal representations? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
