[Python-Dev] Issue #21071: change struct.Struct.format type from bytes to str

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 00:19:23 EDT 2017


27.03.17 15:12, Victor Stinner пише:
> I would like to change struct.Struct.format type from bytes to str. I
> don't expect that anyone uses this attribute, and struct.Struct()
> constructor accepts both bytes and str.
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue21071
> 
> It's just to be convenient: more functions accept str than bytes in
> Python 3. Example: print() (python3 -bb raises an exceptions if you
> pass bytes to print).
> 
> Is anything opposed to breaking the backward compatibility?

If nobody opposed to this change it will be made in short time.



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