Steven D'Aprano wrote:
- If it is no burden to have to import a module and call an external function for some transformations, why have encode and decode methods at all?
Now that all text strings are unicode, the unicode codecs are in a sense special, in that you can't do any string I/O at all without using them at some stage. So arguably it makes sense to have a very easy way of invoking them. I suspect that without this, the idea of all strings being unicode would have been even harder to sell than it was. -- 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
