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This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2.
-PEP XXX: Stub
-=============
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PEP 393: Flexible String Representation
=======================================
-XXX Give a short introduction about :pep:`393`.
+[Abstract copied from the PEP: The Unicode string type is changed to support
+multiple internal representations, depending on the character with the largest
+Unicode ordinal (1, 2, or 4 bytes). This allows a space-efficient
+representation in common cases, but gives access to full UCS-4 on all systems.
+For compatibility with existing APIs, several representations may exist in
+parallel; over time, this compatibility should be phased out.]
PEP 393 is fully backward compatible. The legacy API should remain
available at least five years. Applications using the legacy API will not