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Author eli.bendersky
Recipients docs@python, eli.bendersky, flox, patrick.vrijlandt
Date 2012-07-15.03:35:39
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About (1):

It's customary for Python to accept "truthful" values (like non-empty strings) as True. I see no harm in that. Strict type-checking to boolean True in each and every place is not necessary.

About (2):

Similarly, this isn't productive. ET may not know about all encodings underlying the system. The warning is clearly documented - it's up for the user to make sure it's valid.
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