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Author bob.ippolito
Recipients Levi Cameron, bob.ippolito, ezio.melotti, oberstet, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-05-02.15:46:41
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That's not a very convincing argument. Python 2 only returns byte strings if the input is a byte string and the contents of the string are all ASCII. Facilitating that sort of behavior in 3 would probably cause more issues than it solves.
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2017-05-02 15:46:42bob.ippolitosetrecipients: + bob.ippolito, rhettinger, ezio.melotti, oberstet, serhiy.storchaka, Levi Cameron
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2017-05-02 15:46:42bob.ippolitolinkissue29992 messages
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