[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions).

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Oct 24 08:30:52 CEST 2005


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> I'm tempted to say it would be even better if there was a command line 
> option that could be used to force all binary opens to result in bytes, and 
> require all text opens to specify an encoding.

For Python 3000? -1. There shouldn't be command line switches that have
that much importance.

For Python 2.x? Well, we are not supposed to discuss this.

Regards,
Martin


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