[issue45109] pipes seems designed for bytes but is str-only

Guido van Rossum added the comment: I think that module is probably a relic from the Python 1 days… -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue45109] pipes seems designed for bytes but is str-only

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: guido, you seem to be the only active contributor to the pipes module. What do you think? -- nosy: +gvanrossum, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue45109] pipes seems designed for bytes but is str-only

New submission from Richard Tollerton : 1. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/pipes.py#L6 > Suppose you have some data that you want to convert to another format, > such as from GIF image format to PPM image format. 2. https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/pipes.html > Because the