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[Ben Bacarisse]

  To: Steven D'Aprano
From: "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.bacarisse at 1:261/38.remove-r7u-this>

  To: Steven D'Aprano
From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk>

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:14:59 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>
>>>> The code page remark is curious.  Will some "code pages" have digits
>>>> that are not ASCII digits?
>>>
>>> Good question.  I have no idea.
>>
>> It's much more of an open question than I thought.
>
> Nah, Python already solves that for you:

My understanding was that the OP does not (reliably) know the encoding, though
that was a guess based on a turn of phrase.

Another guess is that the OP does not have Unicode data.  The term "code page"
hints at an 8-bit encoding or at least a pre-Unicode one.

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