Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Theplistlib'sloads function only acceptsbytes as input. If the input format is XML against binary, it's normal to pass a XML content instr type in user codes.

json.loads andtomllib.loads also acceptstr as input.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-113537: support loads str in plistlib.loads #113582