Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:13:11 +0000 Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO this is more a philosophical problem than a programming problem. > base64 has a dual-nature. It is both text and bytes. At least it > should fit in a 1-byte-per-character efficient Python 3 unicode > string also. You probably mean "CPython3 1-byte-per-character "efficient" string". But CPython3 is merely one of half-dozen Python3 language implementations. Yup, a special one, but hopefully it's special in a respect that it doesn't abuse its powers to make language API *changes* based on its own implementation details. API changes, because API *decisions* have been done long ago already. -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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
