* Rami Chowdhury (Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:44:41 -0700) > > Further, does anything, except a printing device need to know the > > encoding of a piece of "text"?
Python needs to know if you are processing the text. > I may be wrong, but I believe that's part of the idea between separation > of string and bytes types in Python 3.x. I believe, if you are using > Python 3.x, you don't need the character encoding mumbo jumbo at all ;-) Nothing has changed in that regard. You still need to decode and encode text and for that you have to know the encoding. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
