On Apr 12, 9:29 am, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 12, 10:06 am, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. ;) > > > And making an utf-8 encoding default is not possible without writing a > > new function? > > I believe the Zen in effect here is, "In the face of ambiguity, refuse > the temptation to guess." How do you know if the bytes are utf-8 > encoded?
True, you can't KNOW that. Maybe the author of those bytes actually MEANT to say '¿Cómo estás?' instead of '¿Cómo estás?'. However, it's statistically unlikely for a non-UTF-8-encoded string to just happen to be valid UTF-8. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
