Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Hmm, what happened to "not every one-liner should be a builtin function"?
> I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts How can you be sure about that? > It would be significantly more friendly to beginners (and migrants from > Python 2) To the point that many of them would stop thinking about the problem, and start producing unicode-incompatible code. The idea that it may be presented as a porting recipe is IMO a good reason to oppose introducing this new function. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13997> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com