Martin v. Löwis wrote: > [snip..] > Expanding this view to Unicode should mean that a unicode > string U equals a byte string B if > U.encode(system_encode) == B or B.decode(system_encoding) == U, > and that they don't equal otherwise (e.g. if the conversion > fails with a "not convertible" exception). Which of the > two conversions is selected is arbitrary; we should, of > course, continue to use the one we always used (for > "ascii", there is no difference between the two). > > +1
This seems the most (only ?) logical solution. Michael Foord > 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/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ 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