On 14 June 2016 at 12:19, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Is there > a good reason for returning bytes?
What about: it returns 0-255 numeric values for each position in a stream, with no clue whatsoever to how those values map to text characters beyond the 32-128 range? Maybe base64.decode could take a "encoding" optional parameter - or there could be a separate 'decote_to_text" method that would explicitly take a text codec name. Otherwise, no, you simply can't take a bunch of bytes and say they represent text. João (see ^- the "ã" ?) _______________________________________________ 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
