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On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:

Anyway, aside from that decision, I haven't come up with an elegant way to allow /output/ in both bytes and strings (input is I think theoretically easier by sniffing the arguments).

Won't this work? (assuming dumps() always returns a string)

def dumpb(obj, encoding='utf-8', \*args, \*\*kw):
s = dumps(obj, \*args, \*\*kw)
return s.encode(encoding)

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