On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > The JSON specification says that it's text. Its string literals can > contain Unicode codepoints. It needs to be encoded to bytes for > transmission and storage, but JSON itself is not a bytestring format.
OK, fair enough. > base64 is a way of encoding binary data as text. It's a way of encoding binary data using ASCII. There is a subtle but important difference. > In Python 3 we're trying to stop mixing binary data (bytestrings) with > text (Unicode strings). Yup. And that's why a byte64 encoding shouldn't return Unicode strings. //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
