[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Wed Apr 29 04:40:04 CEST 2009


On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 13:37, Glenn Linderman wrote:

C. File on disk with the invalid surrogate code, accessed via the str interface, no decoding happens, matches in memory the file on disk with the byte that translates to the same surrogate, accessed via the bytes interface. Ambiguity.

Unless I'm missing something, one of these is type str, and the other is type bytes, so no ambiguity.

--David



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