[issue8047] Serialiser in ElementTree returns unicode strings in Py3k

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

My understanding is that backward compatibility, while nice to retain, was not considered a stopper for cleaning up interfaces in py3.  Exactly how considered this change was, I have no idea, but as I said it does make sense to me.  As for 2.x, what's there is what's there, as far as I can see.  Florent could speak to whether or not that API is likely to change in 2.7, but I doubt it will.

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