[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?]

Tue Feb 14 00:40:16 CET 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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>> In fact, the 'encoding' argument seems useless in the case of str objects, 
> and it seems it should default to latin-1 for unicode objects. The only 
>-1 for having an implicit encode that behaves differently to other 
implicit encodes/decodes that happen in Python. Life is confusing enough 
already.
Michael Foord