Simon Cross wrote:
If we only support one, I would prefer it to be bytes since (bytes -> bytes -> unicode) seems like less overhead and slightly conceptually clearer than (bytes -> unicode -> bytes),
Whereas bytes -> unicode, followed if needed by unicode -> bytes, seems conceptually clearer to me. IOW, base64 is conceptually a bytes-to-text transformation, and the usual way to represent text in Python 3 is unicode. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
