Issue #21667: Clarify string data model description

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Nick Coghlan 2014-06-07 23:21:14 +10:00
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@ -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
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