> Ah there may be some confusion here. We're only dealing with str->str > transformations (which in Python 3 means Unicode strings). You can't put a > bytes in or get a bytes out of either of these functions. I suggested a > "quote_raw" and "unquote_raw" function which would let you do this.
Ah, well, that's a problem. Clearly the unquote is str->bytes, while the quote is (bytes OR str)->str. You can't pass a Unicode string back as the result of unquote *without* passing in an encoding specifier, because the character set is application-specific. 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
