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Author pitrou
Recipients drylock, georg.brandl, pitrou, python-dev
Date 2011-10-22.19:32:33
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> If you think it's fine to change this behavior, then yes :)

Well, the "documented" behaviour makes no sense.
Either it should raise TypeError or convert. Since write() converts, it's logical for the constructor to do so as well.
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2011-10-22 19:32:34pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, georg.brandl, drylock, python-dev
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