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Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

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On 4/9/2013 10:29, Ferrous Cranus wrote:

> Στις 4/9/2013 3:38 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε:
>> 'file' isn't magic.  And again, it doesn't look at the filename, it
>> looks at the content.
> So, you are saying that it looks a the content of the file and not of 
> what encoding we used to save the file into?

That's right.  There's no place where your text editor stores the
encoding it used, so 'file' has to guess, based only on the content.
>
> But the contents have within:
>
> f.write(b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef\xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 
> \xf3\xf\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2\n')
>
> so it should have said greek-iso and not ascii.
>

No, that line is totally ASCII.  Only when it's EXECUTED by Python will
a non ASCII byte string object be created.  Like I said, 'file' doesn't
know the first thing about Python syntax, nor should it.

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UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 09:41 +0300
  Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 16:53 +1000
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 10:02 +0300
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 10:18 +0300
  Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-31 09:25 +0200
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 10:58 +0300
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 11:31 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-31 11:28 +0000
          Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 15:58 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 16:07 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-31 15:44 +0000
  Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 23:50 -0700
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 17:12 +1000
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 10:23 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 17:28 +1000
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 10:35 +0000
          Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 16:59 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 15:40 +0000
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 20:51 +1000
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-01 08:35 +0000
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 17:08 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 17:25 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 15:36 +0000
          Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 19:10 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 01:23 +0300
              Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 23:14 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 07:16 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 11:38 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 14:49 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 12:21 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 18:05 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 18:28 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 01:35 -0700
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-04 11:26 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-04 14:38 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-04 12:38 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-04 17:29 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-05 00:17 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 03:07 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 13:59 +1000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 05:28 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-02 12:56 +0100
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 12:24 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-02 15:44 +0100
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 08:23 -0700
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-04 10:01 +0200
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-09-04 07:08 -0700
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 08:45 +1000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-03 14:56 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 20:49 -0400

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