4. Appendix¶
4.1. Glossary¶
- string¶
a unicode string or a byte string
- unicode string¶
a Unicode string type (
unicode
in Python 2, andstr
in Python 3)- byte string¶
a byte string type (
str
in Python 2, andbytes
in Python 3). Unless otherwise indicated, byte strings in this project are always UTF-8 encoded.