Malcolm Greene <pyt...@bdurham.com>: > Is there a benefit to using one of these techniques over the other? > Is one approach more Pythonic and preferred over the other for > style reasons? > message = message.encode('UTF-8') > message = bytes(message, 'UTF-8')
I always use the former. I wonder why that is. I guess the aesthetic rule is something along the lines: use a dot if you can. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list