On 3/28/2013 10:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano 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?
I believe because surrogates are legal codepoints and users may put them in strings even though python does not (except for surrogate_escape error handling).
I believe some of the internal complexity comes from supporting the old C-api so as to not immediately invalidate existing extensions.
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