Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > On 17 Gen, 02:24, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >> If you're truly working with strings of _characters_ then >> 'str' is what you need, but if you're working with strings of _bytes_ >> then 'bytes' is what you need. > > I work with string of characters but to convert bytes into string I > need to specify an encoding and that's what confuses me. > Before there was no need to deal with that. > I don't yet understand why you feel you have to convert what you receive to a string. In Python 3.0 bytes is the same as a string in 2.6, for most practical purposes.
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