Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I think it is a legacy of Python 2. Attributes and variable names are Unicode strings in Python 3, so the main reason of this optimization is no longer relevant. But some programs can still work with encoded bytes instead of strings. In particular os.environ and os.environb are implemented as dict of bytes on non-Windows. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46864> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
