On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:31 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 06/04/2011 07:06, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu >> <mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote: >> >> On 4/5/2011 4:42 PM, John Nagle wrote: >> >> Well, actually Unicode support went in back around Python 2.4. >> >> >> Even earlier, I think, but there were and still are problems with >> unicode in 2.x. Some were and will only be fixed in 3.x. >> >> >> In 3.x, ASCII strings went away, but that was more of a removal. >> >> >> Yes and no. They were kept slightly modified as bytes, with all of >> the string methods kept. >> >> >> I suspect not all string methods were kept for the bytes type: >> $ /usr/local/cpython-3.2/bin/python >> cmd started 2011 Tue Apr 05 11:05:08 PM >> Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 16:47:11) >> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>> 'a/b/c'.split('/') >> ['a', 'b', 'c'] >> >>> b'a/b/c'.split('/') >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API >> >>> >> > You're trying to split bytes with a str (Unicode) argument. Try this: > >>>> b'a/b/c'.split(b'/') > [b'a', b'b', b'c'] > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Doh. Thanks. Now I can eliminate my my_split function. ^_^ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
