[Numpy-discussion] String type again.

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> IMO the extra characters aren't the most compelling argument for
> latin1 over ascii. Latin1 gives the nice assurance that if some jerk
> *does* give me an "ascii" file that somewhere has some byte with the
> 8th bit set, then I can still load the data and fix things by hand.
>

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to throw in one more complication, there is no buffer protocol for a
> fixed encoding type. In Python 3 'c', 's', 'p' are all considered as bytes,
> in Python 2 as strings.


I suppose another option is to formally cal it what has been a defacto
non-standard for years:

ascii-with-who-knows-what-for-the-higher-codes.

i.e ASCII, but  not barf on decoding, (replace?).

but you can use latin-1 the same way, so why not?

-CHB

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