Zachary Ware added the comment: Paul, I think you were in a Python 2 session:
$ python Python 2.7.10 (v2.7.10:15c95b7d81dc, May 23 2015, 09:33:12) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u'a\nb£'.encode('utf-8').splitlines() ['a', 'b\xc2\xa3'] >>> ^D $ python3 Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 5 2015, 21:12:44) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u'a\nb£'.encode('utf-8').splitlines() [b'a', b'b\xc2\xa3'] >>> ---------- nosy: +zach.ware resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26501> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com