On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> David Binger <dbinger@mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>>>>> str(h8(u'\u1234'))
>> '\xe1\x88\xb4'
>> (this is the utf8 encoding of \u1234.)
>
> Do you sliently decode too?  IOW, what does,
>
>     h8('\xe1\x88\xb4')
>
> produce?  I guess that's convenient but it would make encoding bugs
> very difficult to find.

Yes.  The default decoding of qpy is utf-8.  That's what the '8' is for.
If the caller provides a str instance, it better be a utf-8 encoding.