Den 2016-01-07 kl. 20:04, skrev Guido van Rossum:
What policy are you referring to?
I was reading https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0387/#backwards-compatibility-rules, which specifies "raised exceptions", but I see now that it's only a draft.
I don't think anyone objects against making the error message clearer. The objection is against rejecting unicode strings that in the past would have been successfully encoded using Latin-1.
Then I misunderstood, sorry.
I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to change the exception type from TypeError to UnicodeError -- the exception is really related to Unicode so keeping UnicodeError but changing the message sounds like the right thing to do. And this can be done independently in both Requests and the stdlib.
Agreed. I would also suggest adding the suggestion of encoding in "utf-8" specifically which is most likely what will fix the problem. As time goes by and more and more legacy systems disappear, this advise will become truer each year. /Emil