On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:42:52AM -0400, Daniel Holth wrote: > I stopped using Python 3 after learning about str(bytes) by finding it in my > corrupted database. Ever since then I've been anxious about changing to the > new > language, since it makes it so easy to convert from bytes to unicode by > accident without specifying a valid encoding. So I would like to see a future > where str(bytes) is effectively removed. I started working on a pull request > that adds an API to toggle str(bytes) at runtime with a thread local (instead > of requiring a command line argument), so you could do with no_str_bytes(): if > you were worried about the feature, but got a bit stuck in the internals.
How is this different than all the str -> unicode bugs we had in python2? If you have special needs, you can always monkey-patch it in plain python code by overriding __builtins__.str with something that asserts the given arg is not bytes. m -- Matt Billenstein m...@vazor.com http://www.vazor.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/J3MLBIRRUSHO7TSTZ54FFYQZBJBVJCMY/
