[PyQt] Implicit latin1 encoding for QByteArray

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/02/2014 12:49 PM, Phil Thompson wrote:

>> If QByteArray would've done what Python3 does (bytes/string are
>> incompatible), I'd have noticed my mistake right away, this way it
>> exploded unexpectedly ;)

[...]
> It is a breaking change. I think I need to be better at using 
> deprecation warnings generally. So I may deprecate this behaviour in 
> v5.4 and remove it in v5.5. I may handle the unhandled exceptions issue 
> in the same way.

I'd be in favor of both changes, and I'd appreciate a deprecation period.

cheers,
Georg

PSA for all: don't forget to use "python -Wd" or "python -Wa" while
developing since deprecation warnings are silent by default in newer
Python versions.


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