Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> added the comment: Hi Sorin, On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:54:24PM +0000, sorin wrote: > type(message_body) is str ... even if I tried to manually force > Python for use bytes. It seams that in 2.7 bytes are alias to str. > Due to this the code will fail to run only on 2.7 because it will > try to convert binary data to unicode string.
Bit confused here. You encode the string to bytes and decode it back to str. One does not force bytes to str. And if you use, str or bytes consistently in Python2.7 you wont face the problem. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11898> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com