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| From | Veek M <veekjunk@foobar.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? |
| Date | 2026-08-08 04:22 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <1156av3$15v7o$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <1155tpv$13on7$1@dont-email.me> <1156074$14bmn$1@dont-email.me> |
On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 01:19:32 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > b'\xef\xbf\xbf\n'.decode() Could you explain how it works and what exactly is going on? fh.readline() returns a unicode string with the funny chars (bytes 0xff 0xff) encoded as \\xef \\xbf \\xbf - why is it \\? why not just use a single u'\xef\xbf\xbf' - why is he escaping the '\'. Also - how exactly is he getting ef bf bf and not ff ff?
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open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? Veek M <veekjunk@foobar.com> - 2026-08-08 00:38 +0000
Re: open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-08 01:19 +0000
Re: open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? Veek M <veekjunk@foobar.com> - 2026-08-08 04:22 +0000
Re: open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? Veek M <veekjunk@foobar.com> - 2026-08-08 04:25 +0000
Re: open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? Veek M <veekjunk@foobar.com> - 2026-08-08 04:33 +0000
Re: open: 'ascii', 'backslashreplace' not behaving as expected - why? Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2026-08-10 12:08 +1200
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