inconvenient unicode conversion of non-string arguments

[Fredrik Lundh]

Holger Joukl wrote:

>>> Ok, but I still don't see why these arguments shouldn't simply be
>>> silently ignored
 >>
>>  >>> import this
> 
> You probably refer to "Explicit is better than implicit.".

"Errors should never pass silently." is a better match, I think.  you're 
trying to do an invalid operation.  python tells you to fix your code.

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