[Python-ideas] Fall back to encoding unicode strings in utf-8 if latin-1 fails in http.client

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So IMO, this needs to be addressed as a documentation (and possibly code) fix in requests. It's something of a shame that httplib.client doesn't reject Unicode strings rather than making a silent assumption of the encoding, but that's something we have to live with for backward compatibility reasons. But there's no reason requests has to expose that behaviour to the user.
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Personally, I would be happy with any of three behaviours:

1) Raise TypeError and demand that byte strings be used
2) Encode as UTF-8, since that's most likely to "just work", and is
also consistent
3) Encode as ASCII, and let any errors bubble up.

But, backward compat.

ChrisA