On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm actually in favour of encoding bytes only back and forth. A useful > extension would be *another* function which wraps quote/unquote and encodes > and decodes characters.
I'd reverse this. By all means, add a new pair of functions that is bytes in / bytes out. But keep the existing functions purely string in / string out, hardcoded to UTF-8. People wanting another encoding can use the bytes functions and explicit encode / decode calls. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
