Re: [Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions).

Jim Fulton wrote:

I would argue that it's evil to change the default encoding in the first place, except in this case to disable implicit encoding or decoding.

absolutely. unfortunately, all attempts to add such information to the sys module documentation seem to have failed... (last time I tried, I seem to remember that someone argued that "it's there, so it should be documented in a neutral fashion") </F>