[docs] [issue26369] unicode.decode and str.encode are unnecessarily confusing for non-ascii

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: What do you propose? Note that str.encode() doesn't raise an exception. Ascii unicode and 8-bit strings are interchangeable. Ascii unicode strings can be packed in str for less memory consumption (see xmlrpclib or ElementTree), a lot of str constant are used in unicode context (like os.sep or empty string). Breaking str.encode() will break valid existing code. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26369> _______________________________________