if bytes != str:

[Dan Sommers]

On 8/4/19 10:56 AM, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read and learn the the following code now:
> 
> https://github.com/shadowsocksr-backup/shadowsocksr-libev/blob/master/src/
> ssrlink.py
> 
> In this script, there are the following two customized functions:
> 
> 
> ----------
> def to_bytes(s):
> 	if bytes != str:
> 		if type(s) == str:
> 			return s.encode('utf-8')
> 	return s
> 
> def to_str(s):
> 	if bytes != str:
> 		if type(s) == bytes:
> 			return s.decode('utf-8')
> 	return s
> ----------
> 
> I've the following confusion on the above code:
> 
> Why should use `if bytes != str:' here?  I mean, this will always return
> True, IMO.

Not in Python 2:

Python 2.7.16 (default, Mar 11 2019, 18:59:25)
[GCC 8.2.1 20181127] on linux2
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 >>> bytes != str
False