On 2009-01-07 16:34, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Sounds like yet another remnant of the old philosophy, which indeed > supported encode and decode operations on both string types. :-(
No, that's something I explicitly readded to Python 3k, since the codecs interface is independent of the input and output types (the codecs decide which combinations to support). The bytes and Unicode *methods* do guarantee that you get either Unicode or bytes as output. > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've just noticed that in py3k, the decoding functions in the codecs module >> accept str objects as well as bytes: >> >> # import codecs >> # c = codecs.getdecoder('utf8') >> # c('aa') >> ('aa', 2) >> # c('éé') >> ('éé', 4) >> # c = codecs.getdecoder('latin1') >> # c('aa') >> ('aa', 2) >> # c('éé') >> ('Ã(c)Ã(c)', 4) >> >> Is it a bug? >> >> Regards >> >> Antoine. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/guido%40python.org >> > > > -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 07 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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