Linux distributions and Python 2
Linux distributions and Python 2
Posted Jun 16, 2018 16:33 UTC (Sat) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)In reply to: Linux distributions and Python 2 by LtWorf
Parent article: Linux distributions and Python 2
Except that Python 2 strings aren't ASCII and support Unicode perfectly well: you just put UTF-8 inside them.
Posted Sep 19, 2019 16:11 UTC (Thu)
by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
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With unicode objects, you know that they are not array of bytes and a conversion is needed, and you get an error if you didn't do the conversion that you were supposed to do.
Linux distributions and Python 2
They work but are very error prone, because characters might take any amount of elements, so you have all sort of issues when doing cycles or manipulation.