On 27.09.12 18:06, Ian Kelly wrote:
I understand ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9) to be the preferred Latin character set for French, as it includes the Euro sign as well as a few characters that are not in Latin-1 but are nonetheless infrequently found in French.
Even for Latin-9 Python 3.3 can be a little faster 3.2. $ ./python -m timeit -s "s=bytes(range(256))*100" "s.decode('latin1')" Python 2.7: 105 usec Python 3.2: 20.4 usec Python 3.3: 4.98 usec $ ./python -m timeit -s "s=bytes(range(256))*100" "s.decode('latin9')" Python 2.7: 700 usec Python 3.2: 94.6 usec Python 3.3: 93.2 usec -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list