On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 18:27, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote: > I posted a patch to re-add it: > http://bugs.python.org/issue12819#msg142867 Thank you for the patch! Note that this patch adds the fast path only to the helper function which determines the length of the string and the maximum character. The decoding part is still without a fast path for ASCII runs. Regards, Torsten