On 11 February 2012 00:07, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
Nor is there in 3.x.
I view that claim as FUD, at least for many users, and at least until the persons making the claim demonstrate it. In particular, I claim that people who use Python2 knowing nothing of unicode do not need to know much more to do the same things in Python3.
Concrete example, then. I have a text file, in an unknown encoding (yes, it does happen to me!) but opening in an editor shows it's mainly-ASCII. I want to find all the lines starting with a '*'. The simple with open('myfile.txt') as f: for line in f: if line.startswith('*'): print(line) fails with encoding errors. What do I do? Short answer, grumble and go and use grep (or in more complex cases, awk) :-( Paul.