Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time)

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Date	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:29:49 -0800
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On 11/20/2014 07:53 AM, 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?
> That's where the problem is. Fortunately that's one that Py3 solved -
> str simply doesn't have a decode() method.

If your unicode string happens to contain a base64 encoded .png, then you could decode that into bytes.  ;)

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Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-11-20 13:29 -0800
  Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-21 00:11 +0200

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