On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm strongly in favor of some kind of read() method that respects
> encodings. If we can do it in-place I would prefer that, but adding a
> new method as necessary would be an acceptable second option.


I think we should add a read_chars method along with read_bytes and add a
deprecation notice telling users that read will become a synonym for
read_chars after the next deprecation boundary. That way HLLs can migrate
with no breakage prior to the changes to 'read'.
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