[New-bugs-announce] [issue4205] unexpected str.__init__() behaviour on b''

[Eric Devolder]

New submission from Eric Devolder <eric.devolder at gmail.com>:

creating a unicode string from an empty b'' does not result in '', but
produces "b''" instead.

>>> str(b'')
"b''"

Workaround: if the encoding is specified, the resulting string is fine.
>>> str(b'', 'ascii')
''

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components: Interpreter Core, Unicode
messages: 75220
nosy: keldonin
severity: normal
status: open
title: unexpected str.__init__() behaviour on b''
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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