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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-09-01 12:08:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-09-01 12:08:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 2326a79de134281b12b3ed04eeabcc8c403df57d (patch) | |
| tree | 15ee1af7f4979c4bea6bce28f4270dd15ea0f2fd | |
| parent | 37f10386f1bedb992f3d9770b2f71b5edda2abbe (diff) | |
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Add a warning text about mixing bytes and strings.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 96c0b26..93d00a3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -515,6 +515,12 @@ constructed from literals too; use a ``b`` prefix with normal string syntax: object *b*, ``b[0]`` will be an integer, while ``b[0:1]`` will be a bytes object of length 1. + Also, while in previous Python versions, byte strings and Unicode strings + could be exchanged for each other rather freely (barring encoding issues), + strings and bytes are completely separate concepts. There's no implicit + en-/decoding if you pass and object of the wrong type or try to e.g. compare + a string with a bytes object. + Lists are constructed with square brackets, separating items with commas: ``[a, b, c]``. Tuples are constructed by the comma operator (not within square brackets), with or without enclosing parentheses, but an empty tuple must have |