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Author flox
Recipients benjamin.peterson, flox, georg.brandl, lemburg, loewis, skip.montanaro
Date 2009-12-11.08:21:38
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«Everything you thought you knew about binary data and Unicode
 has changed.»

Reopening for the documentation part.

This "mistake" deserves some words in the documentation:
  docs.python.org/dev/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html
      #text-vs-data-instead-of-unicode-vs-8-bit

And the conversion may be automated with 2to3, maybe.
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Date User Action Args
2009-12-11 08:21:41floxsetrecipients: + flox, lemburg, loewis, skip.montanaro, georg.brandl, benjamin.peterson
2009-12-11 08:21:41floxsetmessageid: <1260519701.03.0.938917129835.issue7475@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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