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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:10:03 +1100
Subject: Re: "convert" string to bytes without changing data (encoding)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> 28.03.12 21:13, Heiko Wundram =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B2(=
=D0=BB=D0=B0):
>
>> Reading from stdin/a file gets you bytes, and
>> not a string, because Python cannot automagically guess what format the
>> input is in.
>
>
> In Python3 reading from stdin gets you string. Use sys.stdin.buffer.raw f=
or
> access to byte stream. And reading from file opened in text mode gets you
> string too.

True. But that's only if it's been told the encoding of stdin (which I
believe is the normal case on Linux). It's still not "automagically
guess(ing)", it's explicitly told.

ChrisA