bytes vs. characters
bytes vs. characters
Posted Apr 20, 2015 13:19 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: bytes vs. characters by Jonno
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit
The problem is that "no" implementations do this :( . Ruby's libraries (or at least whatever GitLab uses) will happily make non-utf-8 strings in the JSON it exports. And Python2 will happily import it as a str object. There is *lots* of code that will need changing for stricter parsers/generators.