Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Explicit is better than implicit.
It is easy to add ".encode()" in the user code if it needs this. Adding this feature has non-zero (and actually not a small) cost. Since update() is not just a method, but a part of a protocol, you need to update all implementations. On other hand, raising an error on string argument can help to catch an error if a string unexpectedly occurred instead of a bytes object. ---------- nosy: +christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith, serhiy.storchaka versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue31225> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
