[Python-3000] pyexpat: returns_unicode str/unicode branch

Sun Jul 22 15:50:51 CEST 2007

On Sunday 22 July 2007, Joe Gregorio wrote:
 > Along the same lines, since all strings are now unicode,
 > should "returns_unicode" be dropped from xmlparser objects?
 > That is, the handler functions will always be passed unicode
 > strings and not utf-8 bytes.
Yes. This was always a backward-compatibility point, but it's been a long 
time since the default was to return UTF-8.
 -Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>