[Python-3000] str.decode; buffers

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 31 15:45:20 CEST 2007


Yes on both accounts. Checkin coming up.

On 8/31/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Two short issues:
>
> * Shouldn't str.decode() be removed? Every call to it says
>   "TypeError: decoding str is not supported".
>
> * Using e.g. b"abc".find("a") gives "SystemError: can't use str as char buffer".
>   This should be a TypeError IMO.
>
> Georg
>
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