[Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/13/2014 07:49 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2014, at 06:11 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> Perhaps not, but it's a hint that you should probably think about an
>> encoding. It's symmetric with how '%s' % b'x' returns "b'x'". Think of
>> it as payback time. :-)
>
> Which unfortunately causes no end of headaches, often difficult to debug.

Is it, in fact, too late to change that behavior?

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~Ethan~