[Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Jan 13 16:49:49 CET 2014

On Jan 12, 2014, at 06:11 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Perhaps not, but it's a hint that you should probably think about an encoding. It's symmetric with how '%s' % b'x' returns "b'x'". Think of it as payback time. :-)

Which unfortunately causes no end of headaches, often difficult to debug.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingToPy3k/BilingualQuickRef

(see 'doctests' for one such impact).

-Barry

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