Ouch. Too much discussion to respond to it all. Please remember that in Jythin and IronPython, str and unicode are already synonyms. That's how Python 3.0 will do it, except unicode will disappear as being redundant. I like the bytes/frozenbytes pair idea. Streams could grow a getpos()/setpos() API pair that can be used for stateful encodings (although it sounds like seek()/tell() would be okay to use in most cases as long as you read in units of whole lines). For sockets, send()/recv() would deal in bytes, and makefile() would get an encoding parameter. I'm not going to change my mind on text() unless someone explains what's so attractive about it.
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