[Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 13 18:39:27 CET 2014


On 01/13/2014 08:39 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 07:49 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 2014, at 06:11 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps not, but it's a hint that you should probably think about an
>>> encoding. It's symmetric with how '%s' % b'x' returns "b'x'". Think of
>>> it as payback time. :-)
>>
>> Which unfortunately causes no end of headaches, often difficult to debug.
>
> Is it, in fact, too late to change that behavior?

Never mind, Antoine explained it for me.  :)

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~Ethan~


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