[issue24019] str/unicode encoding kwarg causes exceptions

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith added the comment:

I agree with deprecating (in the documentation) but never removing the encoding argument to str() in Python 3. .decode() is the better way to convert a bytes-like object to a str.

Every change proposed here would be an enhancement in 2.7, and we are not implementing enhancements there.

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versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4

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