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.

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