[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

Tue Jun 22 01:27:31 CEST 2010

On 2010年6月22日 08:03:58 am Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> 
wrote:
> > True, but making it a separate type with a required encoding gets
> > rid of the magical "I don't know" - the "I don't know" encoding is
> > just a plain old bytes object.
>> So, to boil down the ebytes idea, it is basically a request for a
> second string type that holds an octet stream plus an encoding name,
> rather than a Unicode character stream.

Do any other languages have any equivalent to this ebtyes type?
If not, how do they deal with this issue?
[...]
> This is still smelling an awful lot like the 2.x str type to me

Yes. Virtually the only difference I can see is that it lets the user 
set a per-object default encoding to use when coercing strings to and 
from bytes.
If this is not the case, can somebody please explain what I'm missing?
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Steven D'Aprano