On 20/11/2014 18:06, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:42 AM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote:
and it means you can't safely
blindly use %s with an unknown object.
You can't safely do this anyway. Whether it's %s with a str and a
unicode, or %s with a unicode and a str, *something* is going to have
to be implicitly encoded or decoded, and if ascii doesn't happen to be
the correct encoding then the result will be either an error or a
silent failure.
All I know about this encoding/decoding malarky is that I'd prefer an
error to a silent failure any day of the week.
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