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Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis, tarek
Date	2008-04-06.13:59:08
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Message-id	<1207490349.49.0.230981456762.issue2562@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I don't understand. It is certainly allowed to use byte strings for these data, as long as they are ASCII. The Unicode requirement exists only for non-ASCII characters, and distutils makes explicit, deliberate use of the default encoding here (hoping that nobody changed it away from ASCII). There are tons of setup.py files out there that use plain byte strings, and there is no reason to break them, e.g. by mandating that the string is Unicode already.

I don't understand. It is *certainly* allowed to use byte strings for
these data, as long as they are ASCII. The Unicode requirement exists
only for non-ASCII characters, and distutils makes explicit, deliberate
use of the default encoding here (hoping that nobody changed it away
from ASCII).

There are tons of setup.py files out there that use plain byte strings,
and there is no reason to break them, e.g. by mandating that the string
is Unicode already.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-06 13:59:09	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.100916 -> 0.10091577 recipients: + loewis, tarek
2008-04-06 13:59:09	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.100916 -> 0.100916 messageid: <1207490349.49.0.230981456762.issue2562@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-04-06 13:59:08	loewis	link	issue2562 messages
2008-04-06 13:59:08	loewis	create