decode overwrite variable?

[Jammer]

Will a failed decode overwrite the variable?

message = message.decode( 'iso-8859-1')
or do I need to do
msg = message.decode( 'iso-8859-1')

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: decode overwrite variable?

In <21235$45bd8f83 $d8a87c2a$18298 @NEXICOM.NET>, Jammer wrote:

Will a failed decode overwrite the variable?
>
message = message.decode( 'iso-8859-1')
or do I need to do
msg = message.decode( 'iso-8859-1')

Why don't you just try?

In [2]: a = u'\u2022'

In [3]: a = a.decode('iso-8859-1')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.Unic odeEncodeError Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/marc/<ipython console>

UnicodeEncodeEr ror: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2022' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

In [4]: a
Out[4]: u'\u2022'

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch