On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:16:20 +1200, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Victor Stinner wrote: > > The last proposition is to add transform() and untransform() methods > > to bytes and str types. ... If I remember > > correctly, the missing point is how to define which types are > > supported by a codec > > Also, for any given codec, which direction is "transform" > and which is "untransform"?
You transform *into* the encoding, and untransform *out* of the encoding. Do you have an example where that would be ambiguous? > Also also, what's so special about base64 et al that they > deserve an ultra-special way of invoking them, instead of > having to import a class or function like you do for > *every* *other* piece of library functionality? You can ask the same question about all the other codecs. (And that question has indeed been asked in the past.) (One answer is that they used to work in Python2...but the longer we go without restoring the functionality to Python3, the weaker that particular argument becomes.) --David _______________________________________________ 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
