Christian K. <ckkart <at> hoc.net> writes: > > <Paul_Koning <at> Dell.com> writes:
> > I would only want/expect to see “bytes” types when the values in question > are binary data streams, or > > unknown format. But anytime we’re dealing with text strings, the Python 3 > approach is that the Python > > code sees “str” type, and questions of encoding have been handled at the > edge. This is where Python 3 > > This is not true, see above. What I mean is that you cannot leave it to the application. Once a "str" type is returned is has to be assumed that it contains unicode data. "str" classes do not have a decode method or is there a way to decode the data hold by a "str" object assuming that is encoded and not unicode? Christian _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
