I invest some karma to point out how I'd love for str to just use UTF-8 by default, and print as UTF-8 by default: print(b'DONT b"EVERYTHING!"') print(str(b'S

I invest some karma to point out how I'd love for str to just use UTF-8 by default, and print as UTF-8 by default: print(b'DONT b"EVERYTHING!"') print(str(b'SAME!')) print(str(b'I DONT WANT TO add ,"UTF-8" everywhere!','UTF-8')) line="ום עולם" output.write(line) # TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' fp.write(output.getvalue()) # TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes Please at least allow us to set a global option via sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF8') as before to automatically encode/decode as UTF-8 by default!