New submission from Zachary Westrick <zackzackza...@gmail.com>:
The docstring for the str() builtin reads str(object='') -> str str(bytes_or_buffer[, encoding[, errors]]) -> str Create a new string object from the given object. If encoding or errors is specified, then the object must expose a data buffer that will be decoded using the given encoding and error handler. Otherwise, returns the result of object.__str__() (if defined) or repr(object). encoding defaults to sys.getdefaultencoding(). errors defaults to 'strict'. The statement "encoding defaults to sys.getdefaultencoding()." implies that the encoding argument defaults to sys.getdefaultencoding(), which would typically mean that str(X, encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding()) == str(X) However, this is not the case str(b'mystring', encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding()) -> 'mystring' str(b'mystring') -> "b'mystring'" It seems that the phrase "encoding defaults" is not referring to the argument named encoding. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39574> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
