On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> writes: > >> Believe it or not, sometimes you really don't care about encodings. >> Sometimes you just want to parse text files. > > Files don't contain text, they contain bytes. Bytes only become text > when filtered through the correct encoding.
To be honest, you can define text as "A stream of bytes that are split up in lines separated by a linefeed", and do some basic text processing like that. Just very *basic*, but still. Replacing characters. Extracting certain lines etc. This is harder in Python 3, as bytes does not have all the functionality strings has, like formatting. This can probably be fixed in Python 3.5, if the relevant PEP gets finished. For the battery analogy, that's like saying: "I want a battery." "What kind?" "It doesn't matter, as long as it's over 5V." //Lennart _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
