[Python-ideas] Py3 unicode impositions

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Feb 11, 2012 12:41 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote
> if we had a good place to put it, a FAQ entry about "what to do if I
> need to process a file whose encoding I don't know" would be useful.
> And certainly having a standard answer that people could give when the
> question comes up (something practical, not a purist answer like "all
> files have an encoding, so you should find out") would help.

I think if the bytes type behaved exactly like python2's string it would
have been the best option. When you work with "wb" or "rb" you get quite a
hint that you're doing it wrong. But devs would have a viable ambiguous
*string* type (vs bytes and their integer cells).

Yuval
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