March 24, 2000
9:05 p.m.
Well, regardless: I would much prefer to see the encoding passed as a constant string, rather than having to shove the sucker into a variable first, just so that I can insert a useless address-of operator.
Of course. Use & for output args, not as a matter of principle. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)