Hello, I stumbled upon this one while porting some of my programs to Python 3.1. The program receives messages from a socket and displays them in a tkinter Text. Works fine in Python 2 and Python 3.1. The problems arrived when I wanted to know the details...
First surprise: Text.insert accepts not only str but also bytes. So I looked into the sources to see how it is done. I found no magic in 'tkinter.__init__.py'. All python objects seem to go unchanged to _tkinter.c. There they are turned into Tcl objects using Tcl_NewUnicodeObj (for str) and Tcl_NewStringObj (for bytes). The man page for Tcl_NewStringObj says that it creates a tcl string from utf-8 encoded bytes. So I continued to test... Second surprise: Text.insert also works for latin-1 encoded bytes. It even works with mixed utf-8 and latin-1 encoded bytes. At least it works for me. Anyone can enlighten me, where this magic is done? Is it tcl magic or did I miss something in the python sources? Is this somewhere documented? Thanks for any hints, Matthias Kievernagel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
