> Niles, if you want to claim wxjmfauth is right, you'll have to present > some actual evidence. He's claimed for years that Python's Unicode > support is buggy (as he does here), without ever demonstrating a bug. > We've long ago tired of trying to reason with him. > > The tradeoffs of memory use for algorithmic complexity are well > understood, and have been endlessly discussed. There is not an > "obviously right" answer to how to make those tradeoffs. > > --Ned.
Aah, I didn't know, I'm new here. I thought he was referring to UTF-16 being inefficient, which is mostly what I was agreeing with. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list