On 2017-07-21 19:52, Skip Montanaro wrote:
I would like to JSON encode some PDF and Excel files. I can read the content:
pdf = open("somefile.pdf", "rb").read()
but now what? json.dumps() insists on treating it as a string to be
interpreted as utf-8, and bytes == str in Python 2.x. I can't
json.dumps() a bytearray. I can pickle the raw content and json.dumps
that, but I can't guarantee the listener at the other end will be
written in Python. Am I going to have to do something like
base64-encode the raw bytes to transmit them?
JSON supports floats, ints, (Unicode) strings, lists and dicts (with
string keys). It doesn't support bytestrings (raw bytes).
Yes, you're going to have to 'encode' it somehow into one of the
available types.
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