Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > In Python, we have Unicode strings and byte strings.
No, you don't. You have strings and bytes: Textual data in Python is handled with str objects, or strings. Strings are immutable sequences of Unicode code points. String literals are written in a variety of ways: [...] <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-typ e-str> The core built-in types for manipulating binary data are bytes and bytearray. <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#binary-sequence-t ypes-bytes-bytearray-memoryview Equivalently, I wouldn't mind "character strings" vs "byte strings". Unicode strings is not wrong but the technical emphasis on Unicode is as strange as a "tire car" or "rectangular door" when "car" and "door" are what you usually mean. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
