On 06/04/2011 07:06, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu <mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote: On 4/5/2011 4:42 PM, John Nagle wrote: Well, actually Unicode support went in back around Python 2.4. Even earlier, I think, but there were and still are problems with unicode in 2.x. Some were and will only be fixed in 3.x. In 3.x, ASCII strings went away, but that was more of a removal. Yes and no. They were kept slightly modified as bytes, with all of the string methods kept. I suspect not all string methods were kept for the bytes type: $ /usr/local/cpython-3.2/bin/python cmd started 2011 Tue Apr 05 11:05:08 PM Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 16:47:11) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'a/b/c'.split('/') ['a', 'b', 'c'] >>> b'a/b/c'.split('/') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API >>>
You're trying to split bytes with a str (Unicode) argument. Try this: >>> b'a/b/c'.split(b'/') [b'a', b'b', b'c'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
