New submission from Nick Coghlan: In the discussion on issue 18814, Antoine pointed out that in a Python 3 world, using backslashescape during decoding actually makes sense - it lets you accurately report arbitrary bytes in the sequence, without needing surrogateescape or surrogatepass to be used when encoding later.
---------- messages: 225966 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Allow backslashreplace error handler to be used on input type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22286> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
