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Author pitrou
Recipients cvrebert, eli.bendersky, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2012-02-12.04:48:20
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Hmm, what happened to "not every one-liner should be a builtin function"?

> I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts

How can you be sure about that?

> It would be significantly more friendly to beginners (and migrants from 
> Python 2)

To the point that many of them would stop thinking about the problem, and start producing unicode-incompatible code.
The idea that it may be presented as a porting recipe is IMO a good reason to oppose introducing this new function.
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2012-02-12 04:48:21pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, ncoghlan, eli.bendersky, cvrebert
2012-02-12 04:48:21pitrousetmessageid: <1329022101.64.0.792336173864.issue13997@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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