Another try at clarifying what goes into and comes out of Unicode objects.

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Fred Drake 2002-09-24 21:08:37 +00:00
parent d8ce87ad84
commit 3e930ba55f
2 changed files with 46 additions and 31 deletions

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@ -568,10 +568,6 @@ def my_import(name):
\begin{funcdesc}{len}{s}
Return the length (the number of items) of an object. The argument
may be a sequence (string, tuple or list) or a mapping (dictionary).
In the case of Unicode strings, \function{len()} returns the number
of storage units, not abstract characters. In particular, when a
surrogate pair is encountered, each component of the pair is counted
as a separate character.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{list}{\optional{sequence}}