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Author dabeaz
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Date 2010-12-27.20:16:59
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Hmmm. Well, the docs seem to say that it's allowed and that it will be encoded as UTF-8.  

Given the treatment of Unicode/bytes elsewhere in Python 3, all I can say is that this behavior is rather surprising.
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