Guido van Rossum, 17.03.2012 00:57: > OK, how about using encoding=bytes (yes, the type object!)? Or 'bytes' ?
In lxml, there was an "encoding=unicode" option that would let the XML/HTML/text serialisation function return a Unicode string. This was eventually deprecated in favour of "encoding='unicode'" when ElementTree gained this feature as well some years later. Arguably, this was because there no longer was a unicode type in the then existing Py3, but ... Anyway, given that there is at least some precedence, I'd prefer the name "bytes" over the bare bytes type. Regarding possible naming conflicts, I don't see any sense in calling an actual encoding "bytes" that does anything but returning bare bytes in a bytes object, as is the case here. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
