It’s not that I don’t understand it.
The problem is that encode and decode are directional constructs that change depending on context.
That’s a poor UI in Python.
The problem is that encode and decode are directional constructs that change depending on context.
That’s a poor UI in Python.
Isn't it true that encode always means text -> bytes and decode always means bytes -> text?
It's tricky to look up a different solution you aren't familiar since the terminology is different. What I'm seeing currently doesn't really look that different to Python, but with different names for the types and such.
Taking a stab at it; This looks simple, and runes are great (similar to Python):
https://golangdocs.com/strings-in-golang
But something that bothers me is that converting an array of bytes to a string looks to implicitly be ASCII, or possibly UTF8. This document doesn't say.
This document acknowledges encodings and clarifies that literals are UTF8, but makes no mention of byte arrays:
I've poked through as many SO questions as I care to and am not clear on how to use different encodings. Looks to me like this is a difference in philosophy; Python would say, explicit is better then implicit, and I'm inclined to agree.
If I'm not understanding properly I'm happy to be corrected.
byte[] unicodeBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(inputString);
// Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.ASCII, unicodeBytes);
string outputString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiBytes);
utf8_bytes: bytes = bytes(input_string, encoding="utf-8")
# Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
unicode_string: str = str(utf8_bytes, encoding="utf-8")
ascii_bytes: bytes = bytes(unicode_string, encoding="ascii")
# The conversion could also be written as:
ascii_bytes: bytes = utf8_bytes.decode("utf-8").encode("ascii")
output_string: str = str(ascii_bytes, encoding="ascii")
Perhaps a convenience method would be nice, something like this, but it somewhat obscures the intermediate decode-to-unicode step:
ascii_bytes: bytes = utf8_bytes.convert(to_encoding="ascii")