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Author terry.reedy
Recipients ezio.melotti, terry.reedy, vincent.chute
Date 2010-08-03.18:53:12
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The docs say that the locale arg should be None, tuple, or string, so I take that to mean that Unicode should be OK for 2.x, and that would help porting to 3.x. If bytes are rejected in 3.x, there should be TypeError raised, not ValueError, as is still the case in 3.1.2.
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