Received: by 10.224.31.20 with SMTP id w20mr4106041qac.2.1348772977390; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.70.82 with SMTP id k18mr1333077vdu.1.1348772977362; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Path: e10ni94578610qan.0!nntp.google.com!l8no13460423qao.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:09:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.203.64.55; posting-account=ung4FAoAAAC46zhHJ0Nsnuox7M5gDvs_ NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.203.64.55 References: <5062ad83$0$29997$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <693ac61b-b1d3-4192-9e50-5166fd119278@googlegroups.com> <447851a9-bc63-4711-a4e6-bff565e28f1f@googlegroups.com> <2b2d20f5-2807-4a61-b284-8075e900db22@googlegroups.com> <50641d6d$0$29997$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <50642DE0.8030102@mweb.co.za> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <051dde5c-5293-4a9a-85c8-aa6714db4f69@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python From: wxjmfa...@gmail.com Cc: python-l...@python.org Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:09:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This flexible string representation is wrong by design. Expecting to divide "Unicode" in chunks and to gain something is an illusion. It has been created by a computer scientist who thinks "bytes" when on that field one has to think "bytes" and usage of the characters at the same time. The latin-1 chunk illustrates this wonderfully. jmf