Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat Sep 1 14:08:51 2007
New Revision: 57867
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
Log:
Add a warning text about mixing bytes and strings.
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst Sat Sep 1 14:08:51 2007
@@ -515,6 +515,12 @@
object *b*, ``b[0]`` will be an integer, while ``b[0:1]`` will be a bytes
object of length 1.
+ Also, while in previous Python versions, byte strings and Unicode strings
+ could be exchanged for each other rather freely (barring encoding issues),
+ strings and bytes are completely separate concepts. There's no implicit
+ en-/decoding if you pass and object of the wrong type or try to e.g. compare
+ a string with a bytes object.
+
Lists are constructed with square brackets, separating items with commas: ``[a,
b, c]``. Tuples are constructed by the comma operator (not within square
brackets), with or without enclosing parentheses, but an empty tuple must have
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