text_combined: greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz lemburg wrote also make unicode default type constructor keep str alias simplify porting perhaps warning 1 making us type 7 characters instead 3 place term string overloaded kinds misinterpretations term string refers string bytes variable length array speak disagree string come mean string characters unless otherwise qualified using one hold noncharacters aberration necessary python 2 wasnt much alternative greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 145853 1300 pythondev capi status python 3