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.

Michael Foord

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