[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

Wed Aug 8 02:04:56 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>This would mean that the Unicode type would acquire all of the ambiquity
>>currently associated with the 8-bit str type
>> Not necessarily, as this kind of use is typically very localized.
> Remember practicality beats purity.

Has anyone considered that, depending on the implementation,
a latin1-decoded unicode string could take 2-4 times as much
memory?
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Greg