On 17 Gen, 03:40, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > 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. > > regards > Steve
That would help to avoid replacing "" with b"" almost everywhere in my code. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
