STINNER Victor added the comment:
'AB\xff'.encode('ascii') raises a UnicodeDecodeError because the byte string
'AB\xff' is decoded from the default encoding (sys.getdefaultencoding(), which
is 'ASCII' in most cases), before the .encode() method is called.
This is not a Python bug, but it is surprising. You should try Python 3 which
does not have implicit conversion from/to bytes/unicode.
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nosy: +haypo
resolution: -> invalid
status: open -> closed
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