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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 13 17:39:20 CET 2014

On 01/13/2014 07:49 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

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.

Is it, in fact, too late to change that behavior?

-- Ethan

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