> Huh... just joining here but surely you don't mean a text string that > doesn't use every character available in a particular encoding is > "really bytes"... it's still a text string...
No, once it's in a particular encoding it's bytes, no longer text. As you say, > Keep these two concepts separate and you should be right :-) Bill _______________________________________________ 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