On: Speed improvements in Python 3.7

[viraptor]

Not sure what you mean. It's the default for a long time now. https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.decode

`open` also defaults to your system encoding, which is likely utf8 judging from the message.

[singularity2001 → viraptor]

print(str(b'I am a broken string'))

print(str(b'I DONT WANT TO add "UTF-8" everywhere!!','UTF-8'))

not quite default!

[orf → singularity2001]

Explicit is better than implicit. The first line isnt a string, it's a collection of bytes, guessing that it's utf8 is not the right thing to do.

The encode (or is it decode? I always forget) defaults to utf8, which is what you should be using.

[Siecje → orf]

It helps me to think encrypt for encode (convert to bytes) and decrypt for decode (convert to text).

[viraptor → singularity2001]

I'm not sure why this example is interesting. You can write:

print('I DONT WANT TO add "UTF-8" everywhere!!')

And get the same result. Or if you really want to start with bytes:

print(b'some string'.decode())