On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> In reference to a byte stream, if you do:
>
> --> b'%s' % 'some text'.encode('cp1241')
>
> it's really just bytes into bytes.That's a confusing example -- it would be clearer to just show b'%s' % b'some text' > If you do : > > --> b'%s' % 'some text' > > then the encoding is ASCII with strict error checking. So if it's not > representable as clean ASCII either encode it manually, or prepare for it to > blow up with an UnicodeEncodeError. You don't say what outcome you want, but if you wanted b'%s' % 'some text' to return b'some text' while b'%s' % '\u1234' should blow up, you're back at the Python 2 approach and that is the last thing I want. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
