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bytes vs. characters

bytes vs. characters

Posted Apr 24, 2015 14:18 UTC (Fri) by lopgok (guest, #43164)
In reply to: bytes vs. characters by cesarb
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit

It is os.listdir. I have not tried accessing it in binary yet.

I do find it odd that the OS can list the file and I can manipulate the file name on the command line, but because it has some odd characters in it, python silently skips over it.

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bytes vs. characters

Posted May 9, 2015 21:34 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, if you want to read something no matter what its encoding, you use bytes mode. That's what bytes mode is *for*. Python 3 is really very consistent here (unlike Python 2, for which you had to guess and hope.)


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