Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > Changing return type based on argument *values* is still a bad idea in general.
I understand the proposal to be changing the return based on argument *presence*. It strikes me a a convenient abbreviation for making a separate encoding call and definitely (specifically?) less bad than a separate module or separate functions. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19837> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
