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Author	eric.smith
Recipients	eric.smith, remi.lapeyre, serhiy.storchaka, sidhant, skip.montanaro, steven.daprano
Date	2020-05-27.09:15:12
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Message-id	<1590570912.93.0.64132542841.issue40762@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> Short of outright banning the use of bytes (raise a TypeError), I think > the current behaviour is least-worst. I agree. I'd like to see the TypeError raised for everything that's not a string or number (since the docs say that's what's accepted), but at this point that would be big change. Maybe we could add a parameter to __init__ to turn on that behavior.

> Short of outright banning the use of bytes (raise a TypeError), I think
> the current behaviour is least-worst.

I agree.

I'd like to see the TypeError raised for everything that's not a string or number (since the docs say that's what's accepted), but at this point that would be big change. Maybe we could add a parameter to __init__ to turn on that behavior.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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