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Author	vstinner
Recipients	eric.araujo, eric.smith, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date	2010-09-30.10:59:29
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Message-id	<1285844371.34.0.555090920821.issue9873@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Option 2 (the alternative Antoine suggested and I'm considering): > - "decode" ... to str ... > - ... objects are "encoded" back to actual bytes before > they are returned In this case, you have to be very careful to not mix str and bytes decoded to str using a pseudo-encoding. Dummy example: urljoin('unicode', b'bytes') should raise an error. I don't care of the internals if you write tests to ensure that it is not possible to mix str and bytes with the public API.

> Option 2 (the alternative Antoine suggested and I'm considering):
> - "decode" ... to str ...
> - ... objects are "encoded" back to actual bytes before 
>   they are returned

In this case, you have to be very careful to not mix str and bytes decoded to str using a pseudo-encoding. Dummy example: urljoin('unicode', b'bytes') should raise an error.

I don't care of the internals if you write tests to ensure that it is not possible to mix str and bytes with the public API.

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