[Python-Dev] Decoder functions accept str in py3k (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 7 16:39:12 CET 2009


Guido van Rossum <guido python.org> writes:

Sounds like yet another remnant of the old philosophy, which indeed supported encode and decode operations on both string types.

How do we go for fixing it? Is it ok to raise a TypeError in 3.0.1?



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