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Author	pitrou
Recipients	cvrebert, eli.bendersky, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2012年02月12日.04:48:20
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Hmm, what happened to "not every one-liner should be a builtin function"? > I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts How can you be sure about that? > It would be significantly more friendly to beginners (and migrants from > Python 2) To the point that many of them would stop thinking about the problem, and start producing unicode-incompatible code. The idea that it may be presented as a porting recipe is IMO a good reason to oppose introducing this new function.

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Hmm, what happened to "not every one-liner should be a builtin function"?
> I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts
How can you be sure about that?
> It would be significantly more friendly to beginners (and migrants from 
> Python 2)
To the point that many of them would stop thinking about the problem, and start producing unicode-incompatible code.
The idea that it may be presented as a porting recipe is IMO a good reason to oppose introducing this new function.

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2012年02月12日 04:48:21	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, ncoghlan, eli.bendersky, cvrebert
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