Roger Binns wrote: > Yang Zhang wrote: >> I copied and pasted this code straight from my actual application, which >> uses blobs instead of integers, which I need to convert into strings >> (since Python interfaces with blobs using the `buffer` type, not `str`). > > And for very good reason. Blobs are buckets of bytes and those are not > strings. In your example there was no need to do the conversion since > you can supply buffers as values too. (In Python 3 the bytes type is used.)
Actually, this is only because Python 3 str is Python 2 unicode. Python 2 (which I'm currently using, and which I believe most of the world is using) str is a physical string of bytes, not a logical/decoded character string. Python 2.6 introduces bytes as a synonym for str, but I am using Python 2.5 at the moment. From http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-January/696449.html: > In Python 2.x, str means "string of bytes". This has been renamed "bytes" > in Python 3. > > In Python 2.x, unicode means "string of characters". This has been > renamed "str" in Python 3. -- Yang Zhang http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
