[New-bugs-announce] [issue22286] Allow backslashreplace error handler to be used on input

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan:

In the discussion on issue 18814, Antoine pointed out that in a Python 3 world, using backslashescape during decoding actually makes sense - it lets you accurately report arbitrary bytes in the sequence, without needing surrogateescape or surrogatepass to be used when encoding later.

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messages: 225966
nosy: ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Allow backslashreplace error handler to be used on input
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5

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