New submission from Quentin Pradet:
>From https://docs.python.org/3.6/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type:
> The following examples show the differences::
>
> >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "strict") #doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0:
> invalid start byte
> >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "replace")
> '\ufffdabc'
> >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "backslashreplace")
> '\\x80abc'
> >>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
> 'abc'
>
> (In this code example, the Unicode replacement character has been replaced by
> a question mark because it may not be displayed on some systems.)
I think the whole sentence after the snippet can be removed because this is
exactly what Python 3.2+ outputs. It looks like the commit which added this
sentence dates from Python 3.1:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34d4c82af56ebc1b65514a118f0ec7feeb8e172f,
but another commit around Python 3.3 removed it:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/63172c46706ae9b2a3bc80d639504a57fff4e716.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 259034
nosy: Quentin.Pradet, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unicode HOWTO references a question mark that isn't in snippet
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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