Brett Cannon added the comment: Unfortunately it's impossible to warn against this in Python 2 since the bytes type is just another name for the str type:
>>> str == bytes True >>> type(b'1') <type 'str'> What we could potentially do, though, is change things such that -3 does what you are after when comparing bytes/str to unicode in Python 2. Unfortunately in that instance it's still a murky question as to whether that will help things more than hurt them as some people explicitly leave strings as-is in both Python 2 and Python 3 for either speed or code simplicity reasons. ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon title: python2 -3 does not warn about str to bytes conversions and comparisons -> python2 -3 does not warn about str/unicode to bytes conversions and comparisons _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21401> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
