william tanksley wrote: > Okay, so you decode to go from raw > byes into a given encoding, and you encode to go from a given encoding > to raw bytes.
No, decoding goes from a byte sequence to a Unicode string and encoding goes from a Unicode string to a byte sequence. Unicode is not an encoding. A Unicode string is a character sequence, not a byte sequence. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list