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Author	pitrou
Recipients	flox, loewis, pitrou, wiggin15
Date	2010-09-30.15:12:42
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Regardless of the various arguments, I think it is too late to break compatibility again, by disallowing bytes input, or changing the output type. What we could do is allow str arguments to a2b_ functions, with the restriction that the argument must not contain non-ASCII characters. (Please note that the "a" is for ASCII; otherwise it would be "u" for Unicode :-))

Regardless of the various arguments, I think it is too late to break compatibility again, by disallowing bytes input, or changing the output type.
What we could do is allow str arguments to a2b_ functions, with the restriction that the argument must not contain non-ASCII characters.

(Please note that the "a" is for ASCII; otherwise it would be "u" for Unicode :-))

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-09-30 15:12:44	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, flox, wiggin15
2010-09-30 15:12:44	pitrou	set	messageid: <1285859564.4.0.376223210086.issue9996@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-09-30 15:12:42	pitrou	link	issue9996 messages
2010-09-30 15:12:42	pitrou	create