[Python-Dev] accept string in a2b and base64? (original) (raw)
M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Tue Feb 21 10:36:28 CET 2012
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Nick Coghlan wrote:
The reason Python 2's implicit str<->unicode conversions are so problematic isn't just because they're implicit: it's because they effectively assume latin-1 as the encoding on the 8-bit str side.
The implicit conversion in Python2 only works with ASCII content, pretty much like what you describe here.
Note that e.g. UTF-16 is not an ASCII super set, but the ASCII assumption still works:
u'abc'.encode('utf-16-le').decode('ascii') u'a\x00b\x00c\x00'
Apart from that nit (which can be resolved in most cases by disallowing 0 bytes), I still believe that the Python2 implicit conversion between Unicode and 8-bit strings is a very useful feature in practice.
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