On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > unicode_escape doesn't make any sense anymore -- python code is text, > not bytes, so why does 'abc'.encode('unicode_escape') return bytes?
AFAIU the situation is simple: unicode.encode(encoding) returns bytes, bytes.decode(encoding) returns unicode, and neither unicode.decode() nor bytes.encode() exist. Transformations like base64 and bz2 are nor encoding/decoding -- they are bytes/bytes or unicode/unicode transformations. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ 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