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But the intentionally seemed to screw folks who needed ASCII - and hey - a lot of web protocols were ASCII at the time. Sure, do the unicode thing. But if some

But the intentionally seemed to screw folks who needed ASCII - and hey - a lot of web protocols were ASCII at the time. Sure, do the unicode thing. But if someone needs to deal with ASCII they need to deal with it. And python 3 was pathetic here. Some folks wrote some very clear posts about this I wish I could find as they explain it a lot better than I ever could.

raverbashing 5y ago
> But if someone needs to deal with ASCII they need to deal with it. Of course. Also byte strings were not there yet IIRC in those earlier versions. But you could deal with it. .decode/.encode to ASCII never stopped working But beats annoying the rest of the world that needed to deal with non ASCII strings.