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Author vstinner
Recipients ezio.melotti, jj, loewis, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2014-08-01.00:46:57
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> What I'd really like to see in CPython is that the internal storage (and the way it's exposed in the C-API) is just raw bytes (=> char*).

Python is portable, we care of Windows. On Windows, wchar_t* is the native type for strings (ex: command line, environment variables).
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