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Yes. It's much better to think of strings as a sequence of Unicode code points.

• ygra 13y ago
  As your parent already noted, thinking of it as a sequence of code points goes wrong when you need to truncate a string in between a base and a combining character.
  • Flimm 13y ago
    Not true. Take this string: d͊ It is composed of two code points: U+0064 and U+034A. The second code point is a combining character. The two code points together form one glyph. The term "character" is confusing because people use different definitions for it, I avoid using it, but the term Unicode code point is very clear. Python 3's strings is a sequence of code points. The above string is represented like this: >>> print("d\u034A") d͊ >>> len("d\u034A") 2 Truncating between the base and combining code points works as expected: >>> "d\u034a"[0] 'd' >>> "d\u034a"[1] '͊'
    • ygra 13y ago
      Except it doesn't work as expected because users generally expect graphemes to stay as they are instead of losing random diacritics.
      • Flimm 13y ago
        By users, do you mean Python 3 programmers?