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.
--
~Ethan~
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