> 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 c

> 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.