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1. Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 12:50:47 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
   #TIL
   
   $ python2 -c "print(u'asdf' == b'asdf')"
   True
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 12:52:51 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     Even worse:
     
     $ python2 -c "print({b'asdf': 'qwer'}[u'asdf'])"
     qwer
   • 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔ (takeshitakenji@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 12:56:21 UTC 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔

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     @clacke I think you might be missing something:
     
     >>> type(b'123')
     <type 'str'>
      
     In Python 2, the 'b' sigil doesn't really do anything.  Also, u'123' will equal '123'.
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 12:58:40 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔
     @takeshitakenji Not missing anything, just expression myself clearly for the benefit of non-bilinguals. :-)
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 12:59:46 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔
     @takeshitakenji The real problem is that two values of different type are being coerced for an equality comparison. This is not Javascript.
   • 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔ (takeshitakenji@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 13:03:17 UTC 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔

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     @clacke The real problem is that Python 2 had two 'normal' string types, which is only for compatibility with older Python 2 scripts.
     
     Python 3 has only one 'normal' string type, which is what really solves the problem.
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 14:17:12 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • 馬鹿野狐(ばかやこ)✔
     @takeshitakenji I just haven't been this much exposed to Python 2 before, and was surprised by this workaround. I'm glad Python 3 happened.