Walter Dörwald <wal...@livinglogic.de> added the comment: > > I’d be grateful if someone could post links to discussion > > about the removal of codecs like hex and rot13 > r55932 (~3 years ago):
That was my commit. ;) > Thanks for the link. Do you have a pointer to the PEP or ML thread > discussing that change? The removal is documented here: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549 """ We are adopting a slightly different approach to codecs: while in Python 2, codecs can accept either Unicode or 8-bits as input and produce either as output, in Py3k, encoding is always a translation from a Unicode (text) string to an array of bytes, and decoding always goes the opposite direction. This means that we had to drop a few codecs that don't fit in this model, for example rot13, base64 and bz2 (those conversions are still supported, just not through the encode/decode API). """ A post by Georg Brandl about this is at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-June/008420.html (Note that this thread began in private email between Guido, MvL, Georg and myself. If needed I can dig up the emails.) ---------- nosy: +doerwalter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8838> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
