On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 04:22:59 -0000 (UTC), Veek M wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 01:19:32 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > >> b'\xef\xbf\xbf\n'.decode() > > Could you explain how it works and what exactly is going on? > > fh.readline() returns a unicode string with the funny chars (bytes 0xff > 0xff) encoded as \\xef \\xbf \\xbf - why is it \\? why not just use a > single u'\xef\xbf\xbf' - why is he escaping the '\'. > > Also - how exactly is he getting ef bf bf and not ff ff?
oh is 0xff 0xff when encoded to disk in utf-8 (sys.getsystemdefaultencoding) 0xef 0xbf 0xbf? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
