Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> added the comment: In my opinion we should unfortunately close this with WONTFIX because:
* adding a feature in a point release is not an option * this may be poorly documented but most of the standard library in 2.x assumes bytestrings (and fails with Unicode strings). Same goes for instance for csv. * storing encoded data internally enables for direct reading and writing to compatible files * having Unicode instead requires the possibility to specify an `encoding` parameter to read* and write* methods. I added this parameter in 3.2 exactly for this reason. So, unless I missed something obvious and there's more discussion, I am closing this issue next week. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11597> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
