Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:26:07 +0100, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> declaimed the > following: > > > > >Maybe I shouldn't but Python 2 has been managing to do so for several > >years without any issues. I know I *could* put the exceptions in a > >bucket somewhere and deal with them separately but I'd really rather > >not. > > > > In Python2 "string" IS BYTE-STRING. It is never UNICODE, and ignores > any encoding. > > So, for Python3, the SAME processing requires NOT USING "string" > (which > is now Unicode) and ensuring that all literals are b"stuff", and using the > methods of the bytes data type. > Now I'm beginning to realise that *this* may well be what I need to do, after going round in several convoluted circles! :-)
Thank you! -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
