Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >>>>>>"Guido" == Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guido> - b = bytes(t, enc); t = text(b, enc) > > +1 The coding conversion operation has always felt like a constructor > to me, and in this particular usage that's exactly what it is. I > prefer the nomenclature to reflect that. This also has the advantage that it competely avoids using the verbs "encode" and "decode" and the attendant confusion about which direction they go in. e.g. s = text(b, "base64") makes it obvious that you're going from the binary side to the text side of the base64 conversion. Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
