[Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

Fri Mar 21 00:17:41 CET 2008

""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
news:47E2E02F.1020007 at v.loewis.de...
| This is probably not correct. However, in 2.6, you could write
| that as
|| if type(s) is bytes: s = unicode(s, 'utf-8')
|| as bytes is str in 2.6. If you want to support even older
| versions, do
|| try:
| bytes
| except NameError:
| bytes = str
|| somewhere, then write the code as I proposed above.

This is exactly the sort of thing that should be and I expect will be in 
the conversion docs. 