On 2010-02-11 15:43 PM, mk wrote:
MRAB wrote:
Strictly speaking, only Unicode can be encoded.
How so? Can't bytestrings containing characters of, say, koi8r encoding
be encoded?
I think he means that only unicode objects can be encoded using the .encode()
method, as clarified by his next sentence:
What Python 2 is doing here is trying to be helpful: if it's already a
bytestring then decode it first to Unicode and then re-encode it to a
bytestring.
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