On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > You can't operate on file names and text files using Python strings. Or > at least, you will need to add (nontrivial) exception catching logic.
You can't operate on a JPG file using a Unicode string, nor an array of integers. What of it? You can't operate on an array of integers using a dictionary, either. So? How is this a failing of UTF-8? If you really REALLY can't use the bytes() type to work with something that is, yaknow, bytes, then you could use an alternative encoding that has a value for every byte. It's still not Unicode text, so it doesn't much matter which encoding you use. But it's much better to use the bytes type to work with bytes. It is not text, so don't treat it as text. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
