While I agree with you about some of those, `isprintable` only makes sense in a byte object, it doesn't make sense on text which is printable by definition. Per

While I agree with you about some of those, `isprintable` only makes sense in a byte object, it doesn't make sense on text which is printable by definition. Perhaps it should be called isasciipritnable, but yeah. > In hindsight, I think the proper decision would have been to ensure every string has an accompanying encoding attribute This wouldn't have made things any more source compatible. Adding more types doesnt address the issue that python2 string was multiple things masquerading as one.