[Python-3000] Does bytes() need to support bytes(<str>, <encoding>)?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> But I don't see the point of defaulting to raw-unicode-escape --
> what's the use case for that? I think you should just explicitly say
> s.encode('raw-unicode-escape') where you need that. Any reason you
> can't?

Nope.  So what would bytes(s) do?

- -Barry

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