[Python-Dev] Allowing u.encode() to return non-strings

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 05:55, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Now that more and more codecs become available and the scope
> of those codecs goes far beyond only encoding from Unicode to
> strings and back, I am tempted to open up that restriction,
> thereby opening up u.encode() for applications that wish to
> use other codecs that return e.g. Unicode objects as well.

+1

-Barry

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