Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time)

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Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
>> I think that you may get a Unicode/Encode/Error when you try to /decode/
>> a unicode string is more confusing...
> 
> Hang on a minute, what does it even mean to decode a Unicode string?

Let's not get philosophical ;)

> That's where the problem is. Fortunately that's one that Py3 solved -
> str simply doesn't have a decode() method.

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Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-11-20 17:32 +0100

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