Python converts my 8-bit strings

[gradha at iname.com]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote:
> gradha at iname.com wrote:
>> When I for example fed string.split with an 8 bit string, all the 8 bit
>> characters get converted into what looks like utf-8 codes.

> you're probably confusing the string escaping done by
> the "repr" function with utf-8 encoding.

Exactly. Thanks for the info (in fact, I was going to ask shortly what was
that repr thing...).

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