Phillip J. Eby wrote: [snip..] > > In fact, the 'encoding' argument seems useless in the case of str objects, > and it seems it should default to latin-1 for unicode objects. The only > -1 for having an implicit encode that behaves differently to other implicit encodes/decodes that happen in Python. Life is confusing enough already.
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