[issue38357] print adding extra bytes in hex above x7F

[Ammar Askar]

Ammar Askar <ammar at ammaraskar.com> added the comment:

If you're trying to get raw bytes, you need to use

    print(b'\x80')

what's happening right now is that the '\x80' is treated as a unicode code point (see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type), and when Python goes to print it, it gets encoded to the raw underlying bytes. Which, in the default encoding of utf-8 requires the extra byte.

>>> '\x80'.encode()
b'\xc2\x80'

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nosy: +ammar2
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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