On approximately 4/28/2009 7:40 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of R. David Murray:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 13:37, Glenn Linderman wrote:
C. File on disk with the invalid surrogate code, accessed via the str
interface, no decoding happens, matches in memory the file on disk
with the byte that translates to the same surrogate, accessed via the
bytes interface. Ambiguity.
Unless I'm missing something, one of these is type str, and the other is
type bytes, so no ambiguity.
You are missing that the bytes value would get decoded to a str; thus
both are str; so ambiguity is possible.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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