On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 20:29, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On approximately 4/28/2009 7:40 PM, came the following characters from the
> keyboard of R. David Murray:
>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 at 13:37, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>> > C. File on disk with the invalid surrogate code, accessed via the str
>> > interface, no decoding happens, matches in memory the file on disk with
>> > the byte that translates to the same surrogate, accessed via the bytes
>> > interface. Ambiguity.
>>>> Unless I'm missing something, one of these is type str, and the other is
>> type bytes, so no ambiguity.
>>> You are missing that the bytes value would get decoded to a str; thus both
> are str; so ambiguity is possible.
Only if you as the programmer decode it. Now, I don't understand the
subtleties of Unicode enough to know if Martin has already successfully
addressed this concern in another fashion, but personally I think that
if you as a programmer are comparing funnydecoded-str strings gotten
via a string interface with normal-decoded strings gotten via a bytes
interface, that we could claim that your program has a bug.
--David