[Python-Dev] Printing and __unicode__

[Michael Hudson]

martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) writes:

> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
> 
> > I think that StringIO and cStringIO should be regarded as
> > binary streams without any encoding knowledge. It is easy
> > enough to wrap these into Unicode aware streams using the
> > codecs.StreamReaderWriter class as is done in codecs.open().
> 
> Then why did you fix that behaviour when you broke it?

Because people had come to rely on it and their code broke in the 2.1
-> 2.2 transition.  I don't think it was intentional.  At least that's
what I remember from the time.

This argument suggests that we perhaps shouldn't change StringIO
again...

Cheers,
M.

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