From: martin@... (Martin v. Loewis)
Date: 2001-11-14T09:32:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25120] Re: XML libraries (Re:  Re: ruby and 	webservices)

Bob Hutchison <hutch@xampl.com> writes:

> I don't know the situation with Python.

In Python, the builtin string type is still used for both byte strings
and character strings (typically assuming a single-byte encoding, more
often than not assuming Latin-1). The more recent Unicode type
attempts to make the distinction clear, and the codecs API treats
"plain" strings always as byte strings, requiring an encoding
name before attempting to perform conversion.

Regards,
Martin