On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:39:15 -0400, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> Reading from stdin/a file gets you bytes, and not a string, because >> Python cannot automagically guess what format the input is in. >> > Huh?
Oh, it can certainly guess (in the absence of any other information, it uses the current locale). Whether or not that guess is correct is a different matter. Realistically, if you want sensible behaviour from Python 3.x, you need to use an ISO-8859-1 locale. That ensures that conversion between str and bytes will never fail, and an str-bytes-str or bytes-str-bytes round-trip will pass data through unmangled. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
