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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jan 7 19:30:34 CET 2009

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

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?

This definitely cannot be changed for 3.0.1 -- there's plenty of time to discuss this for 3.1.

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