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Mon Oct 3 16:34:09 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/056924.html

On 10/3/05, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure it's a sensible default.
>
> Me neither, especially since this would make it impossible
> to write polymorphic code - e.g. ', '.join(list) wouldn't
> work anymore if list contains Unicode; dito for u', '.join(list)
> with list containing a string.

Sounds like what you want is exactly what I want to avoid (for those
two types anyway).

cheers,

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[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions).