Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: To make the distinction easier to remember, would it help if the methods that are currently set to return bytes instead accepted the typical encoding+errors parameters, with parallel *b APIs to get at the raw bytes?
My concern with the current API is that there isn't a clear indicator during normal programming as to which APIs return strings and which return the raw bytes and hence require further decoding. ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9360> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
