Josiah Carlson wrote:
> I would agree that zip is questionable, but 'uu', 'rot13', perhaps 'hex',
> and likely a few others that the two of you may be arguing against
> should stay as encodings, because strictly speaking, they are defined as
> encodings of data. They may not be encodings of _unicode_ data, but
> that doesn't mean that they aren't useful encodings for other kinds of
> data, some text, some binary, ...
To support them, the bytes type would have to gain a .encode method,
and I'm -1 on supporting bytes.encode, or string.decode.
Why is
s.encode("uu")
any better than
binascii.b2a_uu(s)
Regards,
Martin
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