On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> sys.getsizeof(bytes(range(256)).decode('latin1'))
>> 329
>
> Please try:
>
> print (type(bytes(range(256)).decode('latin1')))
>
> to make sure that what comes back is actually a unicode string rather
> than a byte string.
As I understand it, the decode method never returns a byte string in
Python 3, but if you insist:
>>> print (type(bytes(range(256)).decode('latin1')))
<class 'str'>
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