Guillaume Lebourgeois added the comment: "Also, the usual way to decode by using the .decode method."
The original bug happened using requests library, so I have no leverage on the used method for decoding. But if you used the "replace" mode with your methodology, you would have raised the same Exception : >>> content = b'+1911\' rel=\'stylesheet\' type=\'text/css\' />\n<link >>> rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml' >>> content.decode("utf-7", "replace") File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/lib/python3.3/encodings/utf_7.py", line 12, in decode return codecs.utf_7_decode(input, errors, True) SystemError: invalid maximum character passed to PyUnicode_New ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19279> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com