My reasoning was that str(bytes) would normally be called so rarely that
who cares.

On Fri, May 27, 2016, at 09:02 AM, STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor added the comment:
> 
> strbytes.patch of #27134: adding calls to
> PyThreadState_GetDict()+PyDict_GetItemString() seems inefficient for a
> rare use case
> 
> I would prefer to modify the existing Py_BytesWarningFlag flag.
> 
> The flag is process-wide. If it's an issue, we can use a thread-local
> storage (TLS) for the flag in C.
> 
> FYI get_exec_path() uses the following code to temporarely ignore the
> warning:
> 
>     # {b'PATH': ...}.get('PATH') and {'PATH': ...}.get(b'PATH') emit a
>     # BytesWarning when using python -b or python -bb: ignore the warning
>     with warnings.catch_warnings():
>         warnings.simplefilter("ignore", BytesWarning)
>         ...
> 
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