4. Appendix¶

4.1. Glossary¶

string¶: a unicode string or a byte string
unicode string¶: a Unicode string type (unicode in Python 2, and str in Python 3)
byte string¶: a byte string type (str in Python 2, and bytes in Python 3). Unless otherwise indicated, byte strings in this project are always UTF-8 encoded.

4.2. References¶

Python glossary¶