The asyncore and asynchat modules are in a difficult position when it comes to Python 3000. None of the core developers use it or particularly care about it (AFAIK), and the API has problems because it wasn't written to deal with bytes vs. unicode. E.g. in http://bugs.python.org/issue1067, Thomas suggests that these modules need to be rewritten to use bytes internally and have separate APIs to handle (unicode) text as desired, similar to the way file I/O was redesigned. Another alternative would be to make these modules deal strictly in bytes, but that would probably vastly reduce their usefulness (though I don't know -- as I said, I don't use them).
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