That PEP only refers to the encoding of the source (code) file, not to the encoding on how strings are stored in Python. Edit: Your question might be answered

That PEP only refers to the encoding of the source (code) file, not to the encoding on how strings are stored in Python. Edit: Your question might be answered at SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1838170/what-is-internal-representation-of-string-in-python-3-x#1838285 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1838170/what-is-internal-...