Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

Those APIs are used by pickle and provide a great way to handle escaped bytes sequences in much the same way as str (bytes)/repr (bytes) works. In Python 2, these were used by the string_escape codec, ...

When using email.parser with the modern email.policy.default, the parser incorrectly inserts a space between adjacent rfc2047 encoded-words that are separated by folding whitespace. This can result in ...