Greg Ewing writes:
> Wasn't there a big discussion once before about whether
> encode/decode should be usable for things other than
> unicode<->non-unicode transformations? I thought the
> conclusion reached back then was that they shouldn't.
That group prevailed, but it was more like a WBA title bout ... here's
the rematch. This one won't "prove" anything either.<wink>
> Is there some reason the transformations being talked
> about can't just be provided as functions that operate
> on strings or bytes?
This discussion isn't about whether it could be done or not, it's
about where people expect to find such functionality. Personally, if
I can find .encode('euc-jp') on a string object, I would expect to
find .encode('gzip') on a bytes object, too.
I think this one is just going to come down to BDFL pronouncement
about which is more Pythonic, because I don't really see either point
of view as more "natural".
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