bytes vs. characters
bytes vs. characters
Posted May 9, 2015 21:36 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: bytes vs. characters by Cyberax
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit
That would be a backup program written by someone who doesn't understand the difference between Python's byte- and string-based interfaces. I wouldn't trust any backup program written by someone who didn't understand that! God only knows what it's doing to the file content...