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Author r.david.murray
Recipients eric.smith, ezio.melotti, mahmoud, martin.panter, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2015-04-22.01:23:34
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It does feel like the encoding argument is left over from the translation of the unicode constructor into the str constructor.  I wouldn't be opposed to deprecating it, myself, though we'd probably never remove it.  I would be opposed to making it work on non-bytes-like objects.
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