Victor Stinner writes: > It doesn't work and so something has to be changed.
What specific bug have you observed? Everybody hates this hack, or at the very least is somewhat embarrassed by it, but the working group clearly believes that it works and something like it is necessary. They've studied it for years. To get rid of it, "somebody" needs to demonstrate a bug, and propose something better, plus implement it in code, plus fix any tests that expect Unicode and now get bytes, plus create any additional tests that may be necessitated by changing from a Unicode representation to a bytes representation. I hate it too, but not enough to to ask anybody to do any of the above without a real bug. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
