Greg Ewing writes:
> Web developers might grumble about the need for an extra call,
> but they can no longer claim it would kill the performance of
> their web server.
Of course they can. There never was any performance measurement that
supported that claim in the first place. I don't see how PEP 393
makes a difference to them. The real problem for them is that
conceptually they think ASCII in byte form *is* text, and they want to
do text processing on it. They'll use any flimsy excuse to avoid a
transform to str, because it's just unbearably ugly given their
givens.
I have sympathy for their position, I just (even today) think it's the
wrong thing for Python. However, I've long since been overruled, and
I have no evidence to justify saying "I told you so".<wink/>
