Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > The primary reason for supporting ASCII compatible bytes directly is > specifically to avoid the encoding and decoding overhead associated > with the translation to unicode text.
I think it's quite misguided. latin1 encoding and decoding is blindingly fast (on the order of 1GB/s. here). Unless you have multi-megabyte URLs, you won't notice any overhead. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9873> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
