On 05/15/2018 08:14 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Consider this:bytes("abc", encoding="utf-8")b'abc' Looks reasonable. Then consider this:str(bytes("abc", encoding="utf-8"))"b'abc'" Why is the b'...' bit still there?
Because you are printing a bytes object, not a str.
I suppose it's because I didn't tell it explicitly how to decode the bytes object, as when I do, I get the expected result:str(bytes("abc", encoding="utf-8"), encoding="utf-8")'abc' Coming from a still largely Python 2 perspective, did all attempts to apply default encodings disappear in Python 3?
Pretty much, yup. There is no more guessing what encoding to use -- either specify it, or be made aware that you printed a bytes object.
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