[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 08:43 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>So I propose that we drop the discussion "are URLs text or bytes" and
>try to find something more pragmatic to discuss.

email has exactly the same question, and the answer is "yes". <wink>

>For example: how we can make the suite of functions used for URL
>processing more polymorphic, so that each developer can choose for
>herself how URLs need to be treated in her application.

I think email package hackers should watch this effort closely.  RDM has
written some stuff up on how we think we're going to handle this, though it's
probably pretty email package specific.  Maybe there's a better, general, or
conventional approach lurking around somewhere.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Email%20SIG

-Barry
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