On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:52 PM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote: > And the short answer is that we need unicode because we are printing this > information to the stdout, and stdout is opened in text mode at least on > Windows, and without explicit conversion, Python will try to decode stuff > as being `ascii` and fail anyway.
So you're working with text. That means you HAVE to decode it somehow; you fundamentally cannot print bytes to the console. Lossless concealment of arbitrary bytes won't help you. If you can't adequately decode everything, either backslash-escape the rest, or use a replacement character; you can't print out those bytes. And no, I will not cc you. Subscribe to the list if you're going to ask a question. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
