>> Really? If people are using binary with "well-defined ascii-encoded >> tidbits", they're doing something wrong. Perhaps you think escape >> characters "\n" are "well defined tidbits", but YOU WOULD BE WRONG. >> The purpose of binary is to keep things raw. WTF? > > If you want to participate in this discussion, do so. Calling people > strange, arrogant, and fools with no technical content is just rude. Typing > "YOU WOULD BE WRONG" in all caps doesn't count as technical content.
Ned -- IF YOU'RE A REAL PERSON -- you will see that several words prior to that declaration, you'll find (or be able to arrange) the proposition: "Escape characters are well-defined tidbits of binary data is FALSE". Now that is a technical point that i'm saying is simply the "way things are" coming from the mass of experience held by the OS community and the C programming community which is responsible for much of the world's computer systems. Do you have an argument against it, or do you piss off and argue against anything I say?? Perhaps I said it too loudly, and I take responsibility for that, but don't claim I'm not making a technical point which seems to be at the heart of all the confusion regarding python/python3 and str/unicode/bytes. mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
