On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:43:37 -0700, akhil1988 wrote:
>> In Python 3 you can't decode strings because they are Unicode strings
>> and it doesn't make sense to decode a Unicode string. You can only
>> decode encoded things which are byte strings. So you are mixing up byte
>> strings and Unicode strings.
>
> Then, how should I do it?
> I read a byte string from sys.stdin which needs to converted to unicode
> string for further processing.
In 3.x, sys.stdin (stdout, stderr) are text streams, which means that they
read and write Unicode strings, not byte strings.
> I cannot just remove the decode statement and
> proceed?
>
> This is it what it looks like:
>
> for line in sys.stdin:
> line = line.decode('utf-8').strip()
> if line == '<page>': #do something here
> elsif #do something here
>
> If I remove the decode statement, line == '<page>' never gets true.
Did you inadvertently remove the strip() as well?
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