On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Under what circumstances will a string be created from a wchar_t string? > How, and why, would such a string be created? Why would Python still > support strings containing surrogates when it now has a nice, shiny, > surrogate-free flexible representation?
Strings are created from some form of content. If not from another Python string, then - most likely - it's from a stream of bytes. If from a C API that returns wchar_t, then it'd make sense to have that form around. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
