On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:11 PM songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > > Rob Gaddi wrote: > ... > > And how exactly do you propose to determine whether the constant I've > > enclosed > > in quotation marks in Python2 represents "text" or "binary data"? Not all > > text > > is words; think of SQL queries. And some words are binary data, think SCPI > > commands being sent to a serial port. > > why not assume one, see if it works and then if it doesn't you > know it is the other? if those are the only two choices then > that speeds things up. >
What if neither works, because there are assumptions that don't work? I get the very strong impression that you've never tried this. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
