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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 13 16:59:10 CET 2014


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

What is the use case for embedding a quoted ASCII-encoded representation in a byte stream?

It doesn't crash but produces undesired output (always, not only when the data is non-ASCII) that gives the developer a hint to think about encoding to bytes.

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