On 8/27/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I think we can't really drop s.encode(), for symmetry with b.decode(). > > Do we actually need b.decode()? For symmetry with s.encode(). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)