June 28, 2011
3:06 p.m.
Ethan Furman wrote:
Michael Foord wrote:
On 28/06/2011 17:34, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/28/2011 10:48 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
On 28/06/2011 15:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
S = open('myfile.txt').read() now return a text string in both Py2 and Py3 and a subsequent 'abc' in S works in both.
Nope, it returns a bytestring in Python 2.
Which, in Py2 is a str() object.
Yes, but not a "text string". The equivalent of the Python 2 str in Python 3 is bytes. Irrelevant discussion anyway.
Irrelevant to the OP, yes, but a Python 2 string *is not* the same as Python 3 bytes. If you don't believe me fire up your Python 3 shell and try b'xyz'[1] == 'y'.
er, make that b'xyz'[1] == b'y' :(