On 5/10/2015 11:53 AM, Somelauw . wrote:
In Python 3, decoding "€" with unicode-escape returns 'â\x82¬' which in
my opinion doesn't make sense.
Agreed. I think this is a bug in that it should raise an exception
instead. Decoding a string only makes sense for rot-13
The € already is decoded; if it were encoded it would look like this:
'\u20ac'.
So why is it doing this?
$ python3 -S
Python 3.3.3 (default, Nov 27 2013, 17:12:35)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.decode('€', 'unicode-escape')
'â\x82¬'
>>> codecs.encode('€', 'unicode-escape')
b'\\u20ac'
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