Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

[Thomas K. <th...@kl...>]

On 6 December 2013 10:37, Joel B. Mohler <jm...@ga...> wrote:

> It seems to me that this changeset needs to be rolled back, but I don't
> clearly see the problem that it was intended to fix.
>

I assume that someone wanted to work with the arguments as text (i.e.
unicode) strings. A robust way to do this would be something like the
str_to_unicode function we have in IPython - it's a no-op on Python 3, and
does a robust decode (using errors='replace') on Python 2.

Thomas