what does := means simply?
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri May 18 21:00:03 EDT 2018
On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:42:05 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Unfortunately -- in the current era, "text" means "a defined
encoding",
Text has ALWAYS meant "a defined encoding". It is just that for a long
time, people could get away with assuming that the encoding they used was
the *only* possible encoding, and using it implicitly without even
thinking about it.
That One True Encoding is, of course, EBCDIC.
No, I kid, of course it is Mac-Roman.
Ha ha, no, just pulling your leg... of course it's ISO 8859-1 (not to be
confused with ISO-8859-1, yes the hyphen is significant). Except for web
browsers, which are required to interpret declarations of ISO 8859-1 as
CP-1252 instead.
Actually, I'm still kidding around. Everyone knows the One True Encoding
is ISCII. (That's not a typo.)
--
Steve
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