Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of UnicodeDecodeError

Timestamp:

Jan 19, 2009, 3:03:20 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Christian Boos

Comment:

add #encode anchor

UnicodeDecodeError

@@ -28 +28 @@
 }}}
 
+== ... but I was encoding? == #encode
 A more subtle and confusing way to trigger this error is when trying to ''encode'' a sequence of bytes to a given encoding. Wait... encoding a sequence of bytes? Does that even make sense? Well, normally not, but Python interprets that as a shortcut for encoding the `unicode` object corresponding to this string. So we have the following equivalence: 
 {{{