On 23.04.2013 23:37, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2013 01:25, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 23.04.2013 17:15, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>> On Apr 22, 2013, at 06:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You can ask the same question about all the other codecs. (And that
>>>>> question has indeed been asked in the past.)
>>>>
>>>> Except for rot13. :-)
>>>
>>> The fact that you can do this instead *is* a bit odd. ;)
>>>
>>> from codecs import getencoder
>>> encoder = getencoder('rot-13')
>>> r13 = encoder('hello world')[0]
>>
>> Just as reminder: we have the general purpose
>> encode()/decode() functions in the codecs module:
>>
>> import codecs
>> r13 = codecs.encode('hello world', 'rot-13')
>>
>> These interface directly to the codec interfaces, without
>> enforcing type restrictions. The codec defines the supported
>> input and output types.
>
> If we already have those, why aren't they documented?
Good question. I added them in 2004 and probably just forgot
to add the documentation:
http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/rev/8ea2cb1ec598
I guess the doc-strings could be used as basis for the
documentation.
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