Steven D'Aprano writes: > I thought I understand the purpose of asciistr was exactly that, to > produce something that was compatible with both bytes and strings.
asciistr *canonizes* something as an ASCII string, and therefore compatible with both bytes and str. It can't *create* such a thing ex nihilo. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com