[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Tres Seaver]

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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> We do need str-based implementations of modules like urllib.

Why would that be?  URLs aren't text, and never will be.  The fact that
to the eye they may seem to be text-ish doesn't make them text.  This
*is* a case where "dont make me think" is a losing propsition:
programmers who work with URLs in any non-opaque way as text are
eventually going to be bitten by this issue no matter how hard we wave
our hands.


Tres.
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