On 12 Apr., 14:44, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > > > On the last line, str(x), I would expect 'abc' - same as str(x, 'ascii') > > above. But I get the same as repr(x) - is this on purpose? > > Yes, it's on purpose but it's a bug in your application to call str() on > a bytes object or to compare bytes and unicode directly. Several months > ago I added a bytes warning option to Python. Start Python as "python > -bb" and try it again. ;) > > Christian
And making an utf-8 encoding default is not possible without writing a new function? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
