[Python-Dev] Smuggling bytes into text (was Re: RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5)

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/12/2014 06:21 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:03:15PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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>> code speaks louder than words: http://www.pearwood.info/ethan_demo.py
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> [...]
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> Ethan refers to code like:
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>>> template % ("срЃ".encode('cp1251').decode('latin-1'), 42, blob.decode('latin-1'))
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> It occurs to me that I do exactly that in my demo code :-)

Well, at least you see the point I was trying to make, even if you don't agree.  :)

I apologize again for my typos that made it look like I had no idea what I was talking about.  ;)

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~Ethan~