Antoine Pitrou wrote: > To which you apparently didn't read my answer, that is: > you can never be sure that a variable containing something which > is /semantically/ textual (*) will never contain anything other than > ASCII text.
That is simply not true. There are variables that is semantically textual, yet I can be sure that this is a byte string only if it consists just of ASCII. For example, if you invoke a Tkinter function, it will return a byte string if the result is purely ASCII, else return a Unicode string. This is an interface guarantee, hence I can be sure. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
