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This is perhaps a micro-optimization, but I would like to check that a stream of given bytes is val… Read more Validate That A Stream Of Bytes Is Valid Utf-8 (or Other Encoding) Without Copy

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I have some data with non-ASCII characters. I attempted to take care of it using the following: # c… Read more Encoding/decoding Non-ascii Character When Using Python Pandas

I recently ran into some problems decoding a handle (with errors mapping 0x81, 0x8D) from the Biopy… Read more Python 3 Default Encoding Cp1252

There are already some questions touching this but no one seems to actually solve it. import pydoc … Read more Pydoc.render_doc() Adds Characters - How To Avoid That?

I have Django running on a standard WSGI/Apache httpd combo. I noticed that file output was differe… Read more Subprocess.popen Command (antiword) Produces Different Output In Shell Vs. Web Application

I have a string that is made up of byte values 0-255. I need to convert it to a bytearray. I do not… Read more Convert Binary String To Bytes

I'm trying to write a custom Python codec. Here's a short example: import codecs class Tes… Read more Custom Python Charmap Codec