[Python-Dev] Allowing u.encode() to return non-strings

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 11:29, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> This works for me, especially since I expect type inferencers to
> collapse the two types (just as they should collapse int and long).

And it's historical baggage anyway right?  IOW, eventually <wink> we're
just going to have a single string type, right?

-Barry

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