Eryk Sun added the comment: > Bad feature, as it is a violation of POLA.
I would be astonished if the default __str__ conversion returned a Latin-1 decoding, which won't fail, or used the locale encoding or UTF-8, which could fail. The more explicit call x.decode() uses UTF-8 as the default encoding. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26151> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
