Re: Unicode strings and invalid codepoints

Robert J Budzynski <[email protected]>
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On 09.03.2015 09:08, Martin Bähr wrote:
> Excerpts from Chris Angelico's message of 2015-03-09 03:52:14 +0100:
>> Are there situations in which it's necessary to be able to store these
>> kinds of noncharacters in a string?
> strings may be just binary data.
> why should binary data in a string literal be an error?
>
> greetings, martin.
>
Python (v3) has different datatypes for (Unicode) strings - sequences of 
characters, and byte strings. I don't think anyone has suggested that 
any sort of binary data in a (byte) string should be an error.

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RJ Budzyński
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