Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: > On 9 January 2014 10:07, 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. […]
> Set the mode to "rb", process it as binary. Done. Which entails abandoning the stated goal of “just want to parse text files” :-) -- \ “All television is educational television. The question is: | `\ what is it teaching?” —Nicholas Johnson | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
