Victor Stinner wrote: > Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 10:41:29, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> No, .transform() and .untransform() will be interface to same-type >> codecs, i.e. ones that convert bytes to bytes or str to str. As with >> .encode()/.decode() these helper methods also implement type safety >> of the return type. > > What about buffer compatible objects like array.array(), memoryview(), etc.? > Should we use codecs.encode() / codecs.decode() for these types?
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