iterparse and unicode

[George Sakkis]

On Aug 25, 4:45 pm, Fredrik Lundh <fred... at pythonware.com> wrote:
> George Sakkis wrote:
> > It depends on what you mean by "compatible"; e.g. you can't safely do
> > [s.decode('utf8') for s in strings] if you have byte strings mixed
> > with unicode.
>
> why would you want to decode strings given to you by a library that
> returns decoded strings?
>
> if you meant to write "encode", you can indeed safely do
> [s.encode('utf8') for s in strings] as long as all strings are returned
> by an ET implementation.

I was replying to the general assertion that "in 2.x ASCII byte
strings and unicode strings are compatible", not specifically about
the strings returned by ET.

George