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dbus-python package

  1. Bug #893091
  2. Comment #68

Comment 68 for bug 893091

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In , Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

(In reply to comment #61)
> I've already explained what the rationale for UTF8String was, and it makes no
> sense in a Python 3 world, so I think we can categorise it as "failed
> experiment" and move on

... meaning that for dbus-python users wanting to be portable to Python 3, step 1 is "stop using utf8_strings".

(It's not going to work the way it was intended to work in Python 3 *anyway*, so they need to deal with that.)