[Cython] PEPs 263 and 3120

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> Whether it  
> makes it easier to make the entire parser operate on unicode I don't  
> know (would there be a performance impact?)

Not much of an impact, there is so much happening in between that you won't
notice the encoding/decoding steps. At least in Py2.5, byte strings and
unicode strings are similarly fast.


> As for making docstrings unicode in Python 2, I think this is a bad  
> idea because some programs extract and manipulate them at runtime and  
> will be expecting Strings.

I'd rather think that any tool that does not know how to deal with unicode
strings as doc-strings is broken in Py2 already. It's not uncommon to have
them, it's just not the default.

Stefan