[Zope-Coders] unicode question
Chris Withers
chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:03:10 +0100
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > > Ideally it should be 'string', 'sequence', 'mapping' and 'number', but
> > > as I just explained in python-dev the 'string' name is already taken. :-(
> >
> > Would anything really bad happen if you changed the meaning of that string?
> >
> > You could then have:
> >
> > string
> > |
> > |------unicode
> > |
> > |------ascii
hang on, I'm being silly, what I meant was changing the meaning of StringType,
not string:
StringType
|
|------UnicodeType
|
|------AsciiType
would this work or am I missing something big (which I fear I am...)
Chris