On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> wrote: > Hi, > > James Bennett schrieb: >> Well, ordinarily I'd be inclined to agree: HTTP deals in bytes, so an >> interface to HTTP should deal in bytes as well. > If it was just that I would be happy to stay with bytes. But unless the > standard library changes in the way it works on Python 3 there is not > much but unicode we can use. bytes no longer behave like strings, it's > not very comfortable to work with them. >
I think http traffic is increasingly more utf-8 these days. Also most upper level frame works use unicode natively. So it makes sense to use utf-8 natively, as an option. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
