On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Josiah Carlson wrote: > As an alternate idea, rather than attempting to .decode('ascii') when > strings and unicode compare, why not .decode('latin-1')? We lose the > unicode decoding error, but "the right thing" happens (in my opinion) > when u'\xa1' and '\xa1' compare.
Maybe you want those to compare equal, but _I_ want u'\xa1' and '\xc2 \xa1' to compare equal, so it should obviously use .decode('utf-8')! (okay, no, I don't really want that.) James _______________________________________________ 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