Florent Xicluna added the comment: I am not a native english speaker, but it seems that the common usage of encode/decode is wider than the restricted definition applied for Python 3.3:
Some examples: * RFC 4648 specifies "Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings" http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648 * About rot13: "the same code can be used for encoding and decoding" http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/rot13.html * The Huffman coding is "an entropy encoding algorithm" (used for DEFLATE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding * RFC 2616 lists (zlib's) deflate or gzip as "encoding transformations" http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.5 However, I acknowledge that there are valid reasons to choose a different verb too. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7475> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
