On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 at 23:37 Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> > This is the part that I'm worried about. It kinda seems like we're moving > toward "native string" being the type used in IRCClient, and *that* is > capital-W Wrong. Native strings are for Python-native types only, i.e. > docstrings and method names. > Unless I'm misunderstanding, we're not "moving towards" it, we have *already arrived*: IRCClient deals in str (bytes) on Python 2, and str (unicode) on Python 3. Even if we want a unicode API, having it only exist on Python 3 seems incredibly confusing from a user standpoint, and would appear to require some absurd contortions to write client code that behaves approximately the same on both Python 2 and 3.
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