Sandra-24 wrote: > I'd love to know why calling ''.join() on a list of encoded strings > automatically results in converting to the default encoding. First of > all, it's undocumented, so If I didn't have non-ascii characters in my > utf-8 data, I'd never have known until one day I did, and then the code > would break. Secondly you can't override (for valid reasons) the > default encoding, so that's not a way around it. So ''.join becomes > pretty useless when dealing with the real (non-ascii) world. > > I won't miss the str class when it finally goes (in v3?). > > How can I join my encoded strings effeciently?
By not mixing unicode objects with ordinary byte strings. Use u''.join(some_unicode_objects) to get a joined unicode object. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
