Nah. I discuss this behavior (caching of UTF-8 conversions in the C API) in section 15.14 of the Python Cookbook. The tweet was a tutorial, not a question ;-). Admittedly, an evil tutorial...
Cheers, Dave > On Nov 1, 2017, at 2:53 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Leave it to DB to ask the tough questions other people won't. :-) > > Skip > > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: >> From David Beazley (https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/925787482515533830): >> >>>>> a = 'n' >>>>> b = 'ñ' >>>>> sys.getsizeof(a) >> 50 >>>>> sys.getsizeof(b) >> 74 >>>>> float(b) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'ñ' >>>>> sys.getsizeof(b) >> 77 >> >> Huh? >> >> --Ned. >> >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
