[Python-3000] str/unicode tests: pyexpat.c and read(n)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/22/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Sure, normally XML is serialized to bytes, but it is also
> > serializable to unicode, and that's a useful feature to have (if
> > implementable).
>
> It's not reasonably implementable; users who have use cases
> will have to encode as UTF-8 first.

Now I'm confused. Are we proposing that all our XML APIs read and
write encoded bytes, or are we proposing that they read and write
Unicode strings, leaving the encoding/decoding to the I/O stream? I
thought the latter was preferred but now it looks like you're arguing
for the former?

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)