[Python-Dev] Unpickling py2 str as py3 bytes (and vice versa) - implementation (issue #6784)

[Guido van Rossum]

One reason to use 'bytes' instead of bytes is that it is a string that
can be specified e.g. in a config file.

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Merlijn van Deen, 17.03.2012 15:20:
>> On 17 March 2012 10:43, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> In lxml, there was an "encoding=unicode" option that would let the
>>> XML/HTML/text serialisation function return a Unicode string. This was
>>> eventually deprecated in favour of "encoding='unicode'" when ElementTree
>>> gained this feature as well some years later.
>>
>> That's this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue8047
>>
>> The thread also suggests the options
>>     encoding=False
>> and
>>     encoding=None
>>
>> Considering ET uses encoding="unicode" to signal 'don't encode', I
>> agree with you that using encoding="bytes" to signal 'don't encode'
>> would be sensible. However, ET /also/ allows encoding=str.What about
>> allowing both encoding="bytes" /and/ encoding=bytes?
>
> It doesn't read well for the unicode type any more because it's gone in Py3
> (and "encoding=str" just looks weird). It's less awkward for the bytes type.
>
> However, why should there be two ways to do it?
>
> Stefan
>
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