Re: [Python-Dev] Restoring the aliases for the non-Unicode codecs

2013-11-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 November 2013 01:43, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > > > The long gory history in http://bugs.python.org/issue7475 took a > > different turn earlier this year when I noticed > > (http://bugs.python.org/issue7475#msg187698) that the codecs module > > already *had* type

[Python-Dev] Restoring the aliases for the non-Unicode codecs

2013-11-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nick Coghlan writes: > The long gory history in http://bugs.python.org/issue7475 took a > different turn earlier this year when I noticed > (http://bugs.python.org/issue7475#msg187698) that the codecs module > already *had* type neutral helper functions in the form of > codecs.encode and code

Re: [Python-Dev] Restoring the aliases for the non-Unicode codecs

2013-11-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 13.11.2013 15:29, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Back in Python 3.2, the non-Unicode codecs were restored to the > standard library, but without the associated aliases (mostly due to > some thoroughly confusing error messages when they were mistakenly > used with the Unicode encoding convenience methods)

[Python-Dev] Restoring the aliases for the non-Unicode codecs

2013-11-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Back in Python 3.2, the non-Unicode codecs were restored to the standard library, but without the associated aliases (mostly due to some thoroughly confusing error messages when they were mistakenly used with the Unicode encoding convenience methods). The long gory history in http://bugs.python.or