On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/05/2008, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Consider code that gets an encoding passed in as a >> variable e. It knows it has a bytes instance b. To encode b from bytes >> to str (unicode), it can use s = b.decode(e). > > To encode, you use .decode? It's nice to know it's not just me who has > trouble keeping the terminology straight...
It takes a lot of effort, and constant vigilance, to keep encode/decode straight in one's head. Maybe this means they need to be renamed to something like tobytes() and tostring()? tostring() is probably not the best choice though - too much baggage from java. -param _______________________________________________ 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
