"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/01/2014 19:30, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>> Chris didn't say "bytes and ascii data", he said "bytes and TEXT".
>>> Text != "ascii data", and the fact that some people apparently think it
>>> does is pretty much the heart of the problem.
>>
>> The heart of a different problem, not this one.  The problem I refer to is
>> that many binary formats have well-defined ascii-encoded text tidbits.
>
> Really?  If people are using binary with "well-defined ascii-encoded
> tidbits", they're doing something wrong.  Perhaps you think escape
> characters "\n" are "well defined tidbits", but YOU WOULD BE WRONG.
> The purpose of binary is to keep things raw.  WTF?  You guys are so
> strange.
>
>>
>>> If you (generic you) don't get that, you'll have a bad time. I mean
>>> *really*
>>> get it, deep down in the bone. The long, bad habit of thinking as
>>> ASCII-encoded bytes as text is the problem here.
>
> I think the whole forking community is confused at because of your own
> arrogance.  Foo(l)s.
>
> markj
>

Looks like another bad batch, time to change your dealer again.

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Mark Lawrence