Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment:
> Short of outright banning the use of bytes (raise a TypeError), I think > the current behaviour is least-worst. I agree. I'd like to see the TypeError raised for everything that's not a string or number (since the docs say that's what's accepted), but at this point that would be big change. Maybe we could add a parameter to __init__ to turn on that behavior. ---------- nosy: +eric.smith type: enhancement -> behavior _______________________________________ 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