On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:21:00 -0700, David M. Cotter wrote: > i am already doing (3), and all is working perfectly. bytestring > literals are fine, i'm not sure what this trouble is that you speak of.
Neither is anyone else, because your post is completely devoid of any context. Who are you talking to? Wait, let me see if I can peer into my crystal ball and see if the spirits tell me what you are talking about... I see a post... no, repeated posts, by many people, telling you not to embed Unicode characters in Python 2.x plain byte strings... You know what? You obviously know so much more about Unicode and Python than the entire Python community, you must be right. There is no possible way that misusing byte strings in this manner could possibly go wrong. Since byte strings literals containing Unicode data are "fine", it was clearly a complete waste of time to introduce Unicode strings in the first place. Why bother using the official interface designed to work correctly with Unicode, when you can rely on an accident of implementation that just happens to work correctly in your environment but no guarantee it will work correctly anywhere else? What could *possibly* go wrong by relying on code working by accident like this? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
