[Python-ideas] RFC: PEP 540 version 3 (Add a new UTF-8 mode)

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/12/2017 12:10 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

> Ah yes, date, thank you for the example. Here is my example using
> LC_TIME locale to format a date and LC_CTYPE to decode a byte string:
>
> date.py:
> ---
> import locale, time
> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
> b = time.strftime("%a")
> encoding=locale.getpreferredencoding()
> try:
>     u = b.decode(encoding)
> except UnicodeError:
>     u = '<failed to decode>'
> else:
>     u = repr(u)
> print("bytes: %r, text: %s, encoding: %r" % (b, u, encoding))

Since b is a string, b.decode is an AttributeError on 3.x.  What am I 
missing?  Was this for 2.x only?

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy