Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > Because you are trying to compare a unicode string `val` with a byte > string in the list. The unicode string will be converted to a byte string > for this comparison with the default encoding: ASCII.
:-) I presume you must live north of the equator. Down under, it seems to happen the other way up -- the byte strings are decoded to unicode: | >>> ['a', 'exotic1\xff', 'exotic2\xf3'].index(u'\xf3') | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? | UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 7: ordinal not in range(128) (-: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
