2 Jun
2011
2 Jun
'11
5:37 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
A byte stream with multiple encodings? Now *that* seems wrong!
Unicode encodings are just one serialisation format specific to text data. bytes objects may contain *any* serialisation format (e.g. zip archives, Python pickles, Python marshal files, packed binary data, innumerable wire protocols both standard and proprietary). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia