Message 148917 - Python tracker

Message148917

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Guillaume.Bouchard, docs@python, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date	2011-12-06.13:14:31
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Message-id	<1323177272.46.0.54919678862.issue13538@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Personally I'm not at all sure why str takes encoding and errors > arguments (I never use them). Probably because the unicode type also did in 2.x. And also because it makes it compatible with arbitrary buffer objects: >>> str(memoryview(b"foo"), "ascii") 'foo'

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> Personally I'm not at all sure why str takes encoding and errors
> arguments (I never use them).

Probably because the unicode type also did in 2.x.
And also because it makes it compatible with arbitrary buffer objects:

>>> str(memoryview(b"foo"), "ascii")
'foo'

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-12-06 13:14:32	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, r.david.murray, docs@python, Guillaume.Bouchard
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