On 01/08/2014 09:08 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > Byte strings (encoded code points) or native unicode is one > thing.
Byte strings are not necessarily "encoded code points." Most byte streams I work with are definitely not unicode! They are in fact things such as BER-encoded ASN.1 data structures. Or PDF data streams. Or Gzip data streams. This issue in this thread has nothing to do with unicode. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list