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[Greg Ewing]

Jim Jewett wrote:
> I would prefer that x.split(":") work.
> 
> If that happens because bytes.split does the conversion for me (so
> that x.split(sep) also works), then great.  But I realize that would
> require an assumption about the proper encoding.

If you're going to do things like that, why stop at the
parameters to bytes methods? It's hard to argue that they
should be treated specially, rather than allowing strings
to be cast to bytes in any context that expects bytes.
And then the clear distinction between str and bytes that
we're trying to maintain breaks down.

You can't have it both ways. The type error you're
complaining about is just the sort of error that the
str/bytes distinction is meant to *catch*.

--
Greg