On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Input and output are often wildly asymmetric anyway. It's easy to make > int() and float() accept more input types. But making them return a > different output type is different. I find the existing work-arounds > good enough not to propose a whole new API. If we end up deciding to > add one anyway, I don't think that to_ascii is a good name; it doesn't > imply the type of the result, since ASCII text can also be (and > usually is) represented as a (Unicode) str instance. > Okay. Thanks for al the responses! I'll close issue 2483. Mark
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