On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:05:34 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > Latin-1 is not "arbitrary bytes". It is a very specific encoding that > cannot decode every possible byte value.
Yes it can. py> blob = bytes(range(256)) py> len(blob) 256 py> blob[45:55] b'-./0123456' py> s = blob.decode('latin1') py> len(s) 256 py> s[45:55] '-./0123456' -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list