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bytes vs. characters

bytes vs. characters

Posted Apr 16, 2015 23:15 UTC (Thu) by dbaker (guest, #89236)
In reply to: bytes vs. characters by Cyberax
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit

> For example, JSON decoder in Python3 _insists_ on decoding strings as strings. Even if they have invalid UTF-8 data. It's bad, but such services do exist out there and sometimes you have to work with them.

Because the JSON spec requires that strings must be unicode?

Can't you just write a custom object_hook function to pass to the decoder to solve your problem?

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bytes vs. characters

Posted Apr 16, 2015 23:19 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> Because the JSON spec requires that strings must be unicode?
Yes, but the reality outside is a little bit different.

> Can't you just write a custom object_hook function to pass to the decoder to solve your problem?
No, 'encoder' parameter is ignored in json.loads and everything else already gets decoded strings.

We simply switched to a third-party library instead.


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