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Author	eric.smith
Recipients	eric.smith, jakirkham
Date	2020-07-23.21:51:21
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Message-id	<1595541081.43.0.376554868386.issue41377@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> AIUI (though I could be misunderstanding things) `str` objects do use some kind of typed array of unicode characters (either 16-bit narrow or 32-bit wide). It's somewhat more complicated. The string data is stored differently depending on the maximum code point in the string. See PEP 393. The "kind" field describes this as: 1 byte (Latin-1) 2 byte (UCS-2) 4 byte (UCS-4)

> AIUI (though I could be misunderstanding things) `str` objects do use some kind of typed array of unicode characters (either 16-bit narrow or 32-bit wide). 

It's somewhat more complicated. The string data is stored differently depending on the maximum code point in the string. See PEP 393.

The "kind" field describes this as:
1 byte (Latin-1)
2 byte (UCS-2)
4 byte (UCS-4)

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Date	User	Action	Args
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