On May 8, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Jason Orendorff wrote: > Guido, if 3.x had an immutable bytes type, could 2to3 provide a > better guarantee? Namely, "Set your default encoding to None > in your 2.x code today, and 2to3 will not introduce bugs around > str/unicode."
You cannot set the default encoding to None (rather, "undefined") in 2.x, without making half the stdlib completely unusable. So that's not really much of an option. James _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
