encode() question
s1 = "hello"
s2 = s1.encode("utf-8")
s1 = "an accented 'e': \xc3\xa9"
s2 = s1.encode("utf-8")
The last line produces the error:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test1.py", line 6, in ?
s2 = s1.encode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
17: ordinal not in range(128)
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The error is a "decode" error, and as far as I can tell, decoding
happens when you convert a regular string to a unicode string. So, is
there an implicit conversion taking place from s1 to a unicode string
before encode() is called? By what mechanism?
.
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