[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancements - acceptable inputs and outputs for fspath and os.fspath() (original) (raw)
Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Apr 12 12:37:13 EDT 2016
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On 04/12/2016 09:20 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Ethan Furman
latin1? I thought latin1 had a code point for 0-255, so how could using it raise an encoding error? Latin-1 / ISO-8859-1 defines a character for every byte, so any byte string will decode. It only defines 256 characters as having equivalent bytes, though, so encoding can fail.
Ah, right -- so if you start with bytes it cannot fail, if you start with a string it can.
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Ethan
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