The latin1 codec doesn't fail for any values in the 0-255 range. It probably should, since there are values that don't map to a valid character. I don't know if

The latin1 codec doesn't fail for any values in the 0-255 range. It probably should, since there are values that don't map to a valid character. I don't know if this is deliberate and guaranteed or just an artifact of the current implementation. There should have been a 'byte' encoding that was explicitly made for 1:1 conversions.