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		chadzawistowski on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox Which encoding does Python use now?

ceronman on July 22, 2014 [–]

PEP 393 introduced flexible string representation which can use 1, 2 or 4 bytes depending on the type of the string: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/

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