Don't decode bytes (which may not be UTF8) when displaying SecretBytes #8012
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Change Summary
Removes unneeded
.decode()
.I couldn't find any justification for decoding the bytes. The code was introduced in this commit in #5674 and I don't see any PR comments explaining it. @adriangb any idea?
There are some encodings where a non-empty byte string can decode to any empty string:
but
.decode()
without arguments should always use UTF8 in Python 3 regardless of locale settings.I've checked that any non-empty byte string with up to 3 bytes decodes to a non-empty string if it can be decoded at all:
I also think that any non-empty byte string should be treated as non-empty when displaying even if it can be decoded to an empty unicode string. Although I'm also not sure about revealing whether any secret value is empty.
Related issue number
Closes #7971
Checklist
Selected Reviewer: @lig