[XML-SIG] cStringIO

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Rich Salz writes:
 > It looks to me (from skimming the code in cStringIO.c), that the code
 > is 8bit transparent.  I thought UTF-8 made all multi-byte values have
 > the 8th bit on.  So, if I'm using cStringIO I should be okay, if I'm
 > just using cStringIO to transport data, or maybe do readline or

  That's correct.

 > similar.  Once I need to look at individual characters, I'm hosed.  But
 > if I want to collect the value ofa bunch of TEXT_NODE elements and
 > output them, wont' that work?

  The *only* problem involves Unicode objects, not Unicode data
encoded in 8-bit strings.  So if you're TEXT_NODE objects actually
contain 8-bit strings, it'll work just fine.


  -Fred

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