Casey wrote:
... Is this the 'official' way to do this?... Why wouldn't you just use: print(bytes.decode(b'abc\n'), end='')
Because that code is incapable of sending bytes that cannot be interpreted as encoded in the "default" encoding. If you are sending a picture, for example, all possible byte sequences might show up. If the default encoding is "utf-8", for example, there are byte sequences which are illegal. I suspect you are confused by thinking each byte must map to a character; such an encoding could never suffice for Chinese, for example. --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
