On 01/06/2014 07:46 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
None of this changes the fact that there are bytes used to store/transmit stuff, and abstract concepts used to manipulate them. Just like nobody expects to be able to write a dict to a file without some form of encoding (pickle, JSON, whatever), you shouldn't expect to write a character string without first turning it into bytes.
Writing is only half the battle, and not, as it happens, where I experience the pain. This data must also be /read/. It has been stated many times that the Py2 str became the Py3 bytes, and yet never in Py2 did 'abc'[1] return 98.
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