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Tue Aug 17 22:07:46 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047955.html

Bill Janssen wrote:
> Yes.  My guess is that if you leave it out, you'll see
> 
>   var = u"foo".encode("ASCII")
> 
> all over the place (assuming that encode() will produce a bytes type).

If you also had

    var = bytes(u"foo")

then I guess people would prefer that. People who want to save typing
can do

    b = bytes

and, given that the u prefix will be redundant, write

   var = b("foo")

Regards,
Martin

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