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Author	loewis
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Date	2006-11-22.06:57:13
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I don't think urlopen(...).read() should return strings in Py3k, but instead it should return bytes - in general, resources retrieved are byte sequences (many are application/octet-stream). Making the return type depend on the resource being fetched is also unintuitive. It might be reasonable to have the user specified "binary" or "text" on urlopen() (just like regular open()).

I don't think urlopen(...).read() should return strings in Py3k, but instead it should return bytes - in general, resources retrieved are byte sequences (many are application/octet-stream).

Making the return type depend on the resource being fetched is also unintuitive.

It might be reasonable to have the user specified "binary" or "text" on urlopen() (just like regular open()).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-20 09:59:51	admin	link	issue1599329 messages
2008-01-20 09:59:51	admin	create