[Python-Dev] Bytes path related questions for Guido

[Glenn Linderman]

On 8/26/2014 4:31 AM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014-08-26 03:11, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Nick Coghlan writes:
>>
>>   > "purge_surrogate_escapes" was the other term that occurred to me.
>>
>> "purge" suggests removal, not replacement.  That may be useful too.
>>
>> neutralize_surrogate_escapes(s, remove=False, replacement='\uFFFD')
>>
> How about:
>
>     replace_surrogate_escapes(s, replacement='\uFFFD')
>
> If you want them removed, just pass an empty string as the replacement.

And further, replacement could be a vector of 128 characters, to do 
immediate transcoding, or a single character to do wholesale replacement 
with some gibberish character, or None to remove (or an empty string).
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