[New-bugs-announce] [issue6300] encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument

[R. David Murray]

New submission from R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>:

I repeatedly find myself typing things like
"mybytestring.decode('ASCII', errors='replace')".  This seems like the
natural (I'm tempted to say Pythonic) thing to do, and is more readable
(IMO) than "mybytestring.decode('ASCII', 'replace')".  (replace what?).
 However currently encode and decode complain that they do not take any
keyword arguments.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 89485
nosy: r.david.murray
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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