Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The problem of the first iterator pair token being discarded is the subject of #8478. Consider that part of this issue as being closed as a duplicate.
The issue of a string being returned if there is no encoding should have been opened as a separate issue, and it was in #16223. I explain there why I think the behavior should be left as is and the docstring changed, and the doc clarified. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12691> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
