Consider this:
>>> bytes("abc", encoding="utf-8")
b'abc'
Looks reasonable. Then consider this:
>>> str(bytes("abc", encoding="utf-8"))
"b'abc'"
Why is the b'...' bit still there? I suppose it's because I didn't tell it
explicitly how to decode the bytes object, as when I do, I get the expected
result:
>>> str(bytes("abc", encoding="utf-8"), encoding="utf-8")
'abc'
Coming from a still largely Python 2 perspective, did all attempts to apply
default encodings disappear in Python 3?
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