Re: surprising exception text

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From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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Date	Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:52:24 +0000
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On 08/03/2015 22:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 08Mar2015 18:52, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 08/03/2015 18:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>> On 08/03/2015 09:15, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>>>> Gotta love this:
>>>>>
>>>>> TypeError: decoding with 'utf-8' codec failed (TypeError:
>>>>> '_io.BufferedReader' does not support the buffer interface)
>>>>>
>>>>> Not to worry:-)
>>>>
>>>> What is the bug report number?
>>>
>>> Who said it was a bug? Cameron called it "surprising", not "wrong".
>>
>> s/bug/issue/
>
> It isn't an issue. The exception text make perfect sense and I can't
> think of anything I would actually change given what my code was doing
> wrong.
>
> I just thought it entertaining.
>

Well I can't make head nor tail out of it, might as well be Double Dutch 
or is that Double UK English? :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: surprising exception text Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-08 23:52 +0000

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