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Author	eric.smith
Recipients	eric.smith, ezio.melotti, mahmoud, martin.panter, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date	2015-04-22.03:16:57
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Message-id	<1429672618.13.0.399142849896.issue24019@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I agree with deprecating (in the documentation) but never removing the encoding argument to str() in Python 3. .decode() is the better way to convert a bytes-like object to a str. Every change proposed here would be an enhancement in 2.7, and we are not implementing enhancements there.

I agree with deprecating (in the documentation) but never removing the encoding argument to str() in Python 3. .decode() is the better way to convert a bytes-like object to a str.

Every change proposed here would be an enhancement in 2.7, and we are not implementing enhancements there.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-04-22 03:16:58	eric.smith	set	recipients: + eric.smith, vstinner, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, martin.panter, mahmoud
2015-04-22 03:16:58	eric.smith	set	messageid: <1429672618.13.0.399142849896.issue24019@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-04-22 03:16:57	eric.smith	link	issue24019 messages
2015-04-22 03:16:57	eric.smith	create