[IPython-dev] IPython, Python 3.x, pyout, data

[MinRK]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Min wrote:
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> > JSON doesn't support binary data, so all binary data is b64-encoded.
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> Right, but on Python 3k the base64 module accepts and returns bytes, not
> strings, so shouldn’t it be a bytes object when it’s b64 encoded on Python
> 3?
>


No - the json module supports a small subset of datatypes:

- int, float, unicode, list, dict
- lists, dicts of above

You will never get bytes out of stdlib json on Python 3.


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