[Python-3000] pyexpat: returns_unicode str/unicode branch (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Sun Jul 22 15:50:51 CEST 2007


On Sunday 22 July 2007, Joe Gregorio wrote:

Along the same lines, since all strings are now unicode, should "returns_unicode" be dropped from xmlparser objects? That is, the handler functions will always be passed unicode strings and not utf-8 bytes.

Yes. This was always a backward-compatibility point, but it's been a long time since the default was to return UTF-8.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.



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