[Python-Dev] Printing and unicode (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
14 Nov 2002 12:46:38 +0000

martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) writes:

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

> I think that StringIO and cStringIO should be regarded as > binary streams without any encoding knowledge. It is easy > enough to wrap these into Unicode aware streams using the > codecs.StreamReaderWriter class as is done in codecs.open(). Then why did you fix that behaviour when you broke it?

Because people had come to rely on it and their code broke in the 2.1 -> 2.2 transition. I don't think it was intentional. At least that's what I remember from the time.

This argument suggests that we perhaps shouldn't change StringIO again...

Cheers, M.

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