Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes: > > Well, the problem is that both parts are false. If you didn't start > with a valid string in a known encoding, you shouldn't treat it as > characters because it's not. Hand it to a careful API, and you'll get > an Exception raised in your face.
Which "careful API" are you talking about? > OTOH, at least some of those who feel lucky and use it > naively are going to turn out to be wrong. Why will they turn out to be wrong? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com