[Python-ideas] Adding 'bytes' as alias for 'latin_1' codec.

INADA Naoki writes:

Any thoughts?

-1 TOOWTDI. No alias, please. It's just an idiom people who need the functionality will need to learn (but see comment on urllib.parse below). As Terry says, it's hard to believe that use of the latin1 codec and str for internal processing is going to be a bottleneck in practical applications. I wonder if it would be possible to generalize Nick's work on urllib.parse to a more general class.