> eval() somehow decoded the passed expression. No question. It did not > use 'ascii', nor 'latin2' but something else. Why is that? Why there is > a particular encoding hard coded into eval? Which is that encoding? (I > could not decide which one, since '\xdb' will be the same in latin1, > latin3, latin4 and probably many others.)
I think in all your examples, you pass a Unicode string to eval, not a byte string. In that case, it will encode the string as UTF-8, and then parse the resulting byte string. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
