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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients benspiller, docs@python, ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, terry.reedy
Date 2016-05-12.12:31:43
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If str.encode() raises a decoding exception, this is a programming bug. It would be bad to hide it.

FYI, the default encoding is not hardcoded 'ascii'. Google "Changing default encoding in Python". Maybe this will help in your program.
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2016-05-12 12:31:44serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, ezio.melotti, steven.daprano, docs@python, benspiller
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