David M. Beazley <beaz...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: Given the low-level nature of this module, I can understand the motivation to make it all bytes.
However, I'm going to respectfully disagree with that and claim that making binascii all bytes really goes against the whole spirit of what Python 3.0 has tried to do for Unicode. For example, throughout Python, you now have a clean separation between binary data (bytes) and text data (str). Well, it's cleanly separated everywhere except in the binascii module (and base64 module) which, ironically, is all about converting between binary data and text. As it stands now, it's a huge wart IMHO. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4770> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
