to strings or to bytes, that is the question

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to strings or to bytes, that is the question

Skaperen
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Jul-07-2018, 08:35 PM

when i convert control character representation to what it represents, should a function that does this return a string or return bytes (in python3)?

convertcc('^'+'M'+'\\'+'n') -> '\r\n'
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convertcc('^'+'M'+'\\'+'n') -> b'\r\n'

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