diff options
author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2014-06-07 13:21:14 (GMT) |
---|---|---|
committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2014-06-07 13:21:14 (GMT) |
commit | 1462786f008671fb4ae85f8b9c7a4e54777ff13a (patch) | |
tree | da8f7c57d3f32017a4281f24eeb1e884ab891143 /Doc/reference | |
parent | 4a3f135c8d623d97782ccaea6bb37b1786f86de0 (diff) | |
download | cpython-1462786f008671fb4ae85f8b9c7a4e54777ff13a.zip cpython-1462786f008671fb4ae85f8b9c7a4e54777ff13a.tar.gz cpython-1462786f008671fb4ae85f8b9c7a4e54777ff13a.tar.bz2 |
Issue #21667: Clarify string data model description
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/reference')
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index a901891..d401ee0 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -285,16 +285,17 @@ Sequences single: integer single: Unicode - A string is a sequence of values that represent Unicode codepoints. - All the codepoints in range ``U+0000 - U+10FFFF`` can be represented - in a string. Python doesn't have a :c:type:`chr` type, and - every character in the string is represented as a string object - with length ``1``. The built-in function :func:`ord` converts a - character to its codepoint (as an integer); :func:`chr` converts - an integer in range ``0 - 10FFFF`` to the corresponding character. + A string is a sequence of values that represent Unicode code points. + All the code points in the range ``U+0000 - U+10FFFF`` can be + represented in a string. Python doesn't have a :c:type:`char` type; + instead, every code point in the string is represented as a string + object with length ``1``. The built-in function :func:`ord` + converts a code point from its string form to an integer in the + range ``0 - 10FFFF``; :func:`chr` converts an integer in the range + ``0 - 10FFFF`` to the corresponding length ``1`` string object. :meth:`str.encode` can be used to convert a :class:`str` to - :class:`bytes` using the given encoding, and :meth:`bytes.decode` can - be used to achieve the opposite. + :class:`bytes` using the given text encoding, and + :meth:`bytes.decode` can be used to achieve the opposite. Tuples .. index:: |