On Jan 2, 12:28 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 9:57 pm, mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do not know what the implications of encoding according to "ANSI > > codepage (CP_ACP)" are. > > Neither do I. YAGNI (especially on darwin) so don't lose any sleep > over it. > > > Windows only seems clear, but why does it only > > complain when decoding a non-empty string (or when encoding the empty > > unicode string) ? > > My presumption: because it doesn't need a codec to decode '' into u''; > no failed codec look-up, so no complaint. Any realistic app will try > to decode a non-empty string sooner or later.
Yes, I suspect I will never need it ;) Incidentally, the situation is that in a script that tries to guess a file's encoding, it bombed on the file ".svn/empty-file" -- but why it was going so far with an empty string was really due to a bug elsewhere in the script, trivially fixed. Still, I was curious about this non-symmetric behaviour for the empty string by some encodings. Anyhow, thanks a lot to both of you for the great feedback! mario -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
