
Jan. 12, 2017
3:06 a.m.
Nick Coghlan added the comment: Right, the lack of transitivity comes from the fact that: >>> u"3" == str(3) True Is really shorthand for: >>> u"3" == str(3).decode("ascii") True However, the implicit decoding only triggers for *exactly* bytes instances, so in the bytearray case it needs to be explicit: >>> u"3" == bytearray(b"3").decode("ascii") True ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11681> _______________________________________