Entries published on December 23, 2023

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Compare strings the right way

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See the first post for an introduction.

Unicode’s unique complexity

It is the year 2023 — almost 2024! — and hopefully you’re using a programming language that is fully Unicode-aware. Python is; its string type is a sequence of Unicode code points, and has been since Python 3.3 (yes, 3.3 — see this older post for details of why 3.3 and not 3.0, but …

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