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Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

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  Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-06 08:23 -0800

#63300 — Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

On 01/06/2014 07:46 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> None of this changes the fact that there are bytes used to
> store/transmit stuff, and abstract concepts used to manipulate them.
> Just like nobody expects to be able to write a dict to a file without
> some form of encoding (pickle, JSON, whatever), you shouldn't expect
> to write a character string without first turning it into bytes.

Writing is only half the battle, and not, as it happens, where I experience the pain.  This data must also be /read/. 
It has been stated many times that the Py2 str became the Py3 bytes, and yet never in Py2 did 'abc'[1] return 98.

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~Ethan~

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