[issue13997] Add open_ascii() builtin
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Feb 12 05:48:21 CET 2012
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
Hmm, what happened to "not every one-liner should be a builtin function"?
> I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts
How can you be sure about that?
> It would be significantly more friendly to beginners (and migrants from
> Python 2)
To the point that many of them would stop thinking about the problem, and start producing unicode-incompatible code.
The idea that it may be presented as a porting recipe is IMO a good reason to oppose introducing this new function.
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