On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > I am missing something. Why do you need unicode at all? Why can you > not just keep your binary data as binary data?
Good question. From the SCons code I see that we need unicode, because we switched to io.StringIO which is advertised as the future (and Python 3 way of doing things, because Python 3 doesn't have non-unicode StringIO). A really deep and exhaustive answer. advertisement (first link on StringIO vs io.StringIO): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3410309/what-is-the-difference-between-stringio-and-io-stringio-in-python2-7 peaceful details https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/commits/05d5af305a5d gory consequences https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-request/235/fix-tree-all-print-when-build-tree > I feel like I must be missing something obvious here ... Not that obvious as it appears. -- anatoly t. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
