Totally confused by the str/bytes/unicode differences introduced in Pythyon 3.x

[Steve Holden]

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> On 17 Gen, 02:24, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you're truly working with strings of _characters_ then
>> 'str' is what you need, but if you're working with strings of _bytes_
>> then 'bytes' is what you need.
> 
> I work with string of characters but to convert bytes into string I
> need to specify an encoding and that's what confuses me.
> Before there was no need to deal with that.
> 
I don't yet understand why you feel you have to convert what you receive
to a string. In Python 3.0 bytes is the same as a string in 2.6, for
most practical purposes.

regards
 Steve
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