Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com> added the comment: > It's not, I was more thinking of push_str(foo), where it uses a default encoding. I think some people don't know what unicode or encoding is, or don't want to worry about it.
Nice as it sounds, the problem with this is that those people cannot write correct programs without understanding this. A push_str API which implicitly encodes unicode to str would just be a point for bugs to be introduced. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1563> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
