[New-bugs-announce] [issue26501] bytes splitlines() method returns strings without decoding

[Paul Moore]

New submission from Paul Moore:

See the following test (in Python 3.5):

>>> u'a\nb£'.encode('utf-8').splitlines()
['a', 'b\xc2\xa3']

I encode a string in UTF-8, then use the (bytes) splitlines function on it. The return value is a list of strings, containing encoded byte values.

The bytes object isn't even documented as having a splitlines method - and if it does, then it should be returning a list of bytes objects.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 261289
nosy: paul.moore
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: bytes splitlines() method returns strings without decoding
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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