Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Please comment.
> [...]
> Conversions between bytes or buffer objects and str objects must
> always be explicit, using an encoding. There are two equivalent APIs:
> ``str(b, <encoding>[, <errors>])`` is equivalent to
> ``b.encode(<encoding>[, <errors>])``, and
> ``bytes(s, <encoding>[, <errors>])`` is equivalent to
> ``s.decode(<encoding>[, <errors>])``.
This looks backwards to me. IMHO it should be:
``str(b, <encoding>[, <errors>])`` is equivalent to
``b.decode(<encoding>[, <errors>])``, and ``bytes(s, <encoding>[,
<errors>])`` is equivalent to ``s.encode(<encoding>[, <errors>])``.
Servus,
Walter
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