[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?] (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Feb 14 00:40:16 CET 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote: [snip..]

In fact, the 'encoding' argument seems useless in the case of str objects, and it seems it should default to latin-1 for unicode objects. The only -1 for having an implicit encode that behaves differently to other implicit encodes/decodes that happen in Python. Life is confusing enough already.

Michael Foord

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list