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Aeromancer
Aeromancer

Reputation: 13

Porting Python 2 Unicode to Python 3

I'm currently porting some code from Python 2.x to 3.x and I have come to a hitch. When I try to change:

base = unicode(base, FSENCODING, "replace")

to what I think 3 wants, which is:

base = str(base, FSENCODING, "replace")

it doesn't work saying that str can not decode. If I try:

base = b'\x80abc'.decode(base, FSENCODING, "replace")

I get an error saying that this can only take two arguments instead of the three that I have provided.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 164

Answers (2)

Lennart Regebro
Lennart Regebro

Reputation: 172179

base = str(base, FSENCODING, "replace")

Is correct. You can also do:

base = base.decode(FSENCODING, "replace")

It's the same thing.

What is going wrong is impossible to say without the error message.

Upvotes: 1

dda
dda

Reputation: 6203

Try:

base = b'\x80abc'.decode(FSENCODING, "replace")

Upvotes: 1

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