On 17 March 2012 00:57, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > OK, how about using encoding=bytes (yes, the type object!)? Or 'bytes' ?
encoding=bytes makes (at least intuitive) sense to me; encoding='bytes' would imply there is an encoding with name 'bytes' that somehow does b''.decode('bytes')=b'', and would disallow anyone to create a new encoding with the name 'bytes'. I'll take a look at rewriting my patch later this weekend, and I'll also give the documentation (both the 'consider not using pickle for long time storage' and the docs for this setting) some thought. Best, Merlijn _______________________________________________ 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