[Python-Dev] Decoder functions accept str in py3k

[Guido van Rossum]

Sounds like yet another remnant of the old philosophy, which indeed
supported encode and decode operations on both string types. :-(

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just noticed that in py3k, the decoding functions in the codecs module
> accept str objects as well as bytes:
>
>  # import codecs
>  # c = codecs.getdecoder('utf8')
>  # c('aa')
>  ('aa', 2)
>  # c('éé')
>  ('éé', 4)
>  # c = codecs.getdecoder('latin1')
>  # c('aa')
>  ('aa', 2)
>  # c('éé')
>  ('Ã(c)Ã(c)', 4)
>
> Is it a bug?
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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