Matt Giuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Hi Dmitry,
RE the method behaviour: I think it probably is correct to NOT accept a string. Given that it's base64 encoding it, it only makes sense to encode bytes, not arbitrary Unicode characters which have no well-defined binary representation. RE the method name: I agree, it should be renamed to encodestring. I argued a similar case for the array.tostring and fromstring methods (which actually act on bytes in Python 3.0) - here: http://bugs.python.org/issue3565. So far nobody replied on that issue; I think it may be too late to rename them. Best we can do is document them. RE xmlrpc.client:1168. We just checked in a patch to urllib which adds an unquote_to_bytes function (see http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes). (Unquote itself still returns a string). It should be correct to just change xmlrpc.client:1168 to call urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes. (Though I've not tested it). ---------- nosy: +mgiuca _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3613> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
