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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> What do you think ?
> 
> 
> -1. I find it unfortunate that there are encodings which
> don't convert between Unicode and byte strings; this direction
> should not be followed.
> 
> Instead, text processing utilities should be proper libraries.

I don't understand... codecs are not limited to only text
processing. It's a completely independent framework from the
Unicode sub-system.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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