Joshua Landau wrote: > On 12 July 2013 11:45, Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohn...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Could you explain what you mean? What and where is the new Flexible >> String Representation? > > Do not worry. jmf is on about his old rant comparing broken previous > versions of Python to newer ones which in some microbenchmarks are > slower. I don't really get why he spends his time on it. > > If you're interested, the basic of it is that strings now use a > variable number of bytes to encode their values depending on whether > values outside of the ASCII range and some other range are used, as an > optimisation.
See also <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
