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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> On 10/6/2015 6:45 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > How can I convince ‘print’, everywhere throughout a module, that it
> > should coerce its arguments using ‘unicode’?
>
> Use Python 3.  I am only half joking.  Switching to unicode  instead
> of bytes as the default text type fixed numerous bugs all at once.

This is all part of a transition to Python 3, so I am fully on board
with that. It doesn't help address the problem to tell me I want to do
what I'm already in pursuit of doing :-)

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