2007/10/26, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think encodestring() should return a string, not bytes, and > decodestring() should take either a string, or bytes containing an > ASCII-encoded string. Otherwise, every place they'll ever be > used has to wrap an additional unicode/encode step around their > use.
I'm okay with being flexible on input. I think there ought to be separate functions returning bytes and str. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
