Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
It would be confusing. There would be the encoding argument for open() to encode strings to bytes and the encoding argument for csv.writer() to decode bytes to strings. The latter will be ignored in all normal cases (for strings and numbers). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40762> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
