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On 17/11/2013 06:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> I agree that its a bit of a mess. But only a little bit, and it will be
> less messy by 3.5 when the codecs solution is re-introduced. Then the
> codecs.encode and decode functions will be the one obvious way.
>

For anyone who's interested in the codecs issues see 
http://bugs.python.org/issue7475 and http://bugs.python.org/issue19543

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Mark Lawrence