Re: [Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5

On 01/10/2014 06:39 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

I know what a network protocol with ill-defined encodings looks like.

For the record, I've been (and I suspect Eric and some others have also been) talking about well-defined encodings. For the DBF files that I work with, there is binary, ASCII, and third that is specified in the file header. -- ~Ethan~