[Python-Dev] bytes type discussion (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 15 07:44:20 CET 2006
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
The proper response in this case is often to re-start decoding with the correct encoding, since some of the data extracted so far may have been decoded incorrectly.
If the protocol has been sensibly designed, that shouldn't happen, since everything up to the coding marker should be ascii (or some other protocol-defined initial coding).
For protocols that are not sensibly designed (or if you're just trying to guess) what you suggest may be needed. But it would be good to have a nicer way of going about it for when the protocol is sensible.
Greg
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