From 1462786f008671fb4ae85f8b9c7a4e54777ff13a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Coghlan Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:21:14 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #21667: Clarify string data model description --- Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index a90189179e5..d401ee06f55 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -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 .. index::