Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > u = unicode(b) > u = unicode(b, 'utf8') > b = bytes['utf8'](u) > u = unicode['base64'](b) # encoding > b = bytes(u, 'base64') # decoding > u2 = unicode['piglatin'](u1) # encoding > u1 = unicode(u2, 'piglatin') # decoding
Your provided semantics feel cumbersome and confusing to me, as compared with str/unicode.encode/decode() . - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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