appendix.rst

Appendix

Glossary

.. glossary::

    string
       a :term:`unicode string` or a :term:`byte string`

    unicode string
       a Unicode string type (:func:`unicode <py2:unicode>` in
       Python 2, and :class:`py3:str` in Python 3)

    byte string
       a byte string type (:class:`py2:str` in Python 2, and
       :class:`py3:bytes` in Python 3). Unless otherwise
       indicated, byte strings in this project are always UTF-8 encoded.

References

.. glossary::

    Python glossary
      * `Python 2.7 Glossary <https://docs.python.org/2.7/glossary.html>`_
      * `Python 3.9 Glossary <https://docs.python.org/3.9/glossary.html>`_