Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 09/06/10 18:41, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> The methods to be used will be .transform() for the encode direction >> and .untransform() for the decode direction. > > +1, although adding this for 3.2 would need an exception to the > moratorium approved (since it is adding new methods for builtin types).
Good point. We already discussed these methods in 2008 and Guido approved them back then, so perhaps that's a good argument for an exception. > Adding the same-type codecs back even without the helper methods should > be fine though (less useful without the helper methods, obviously, but > still valid). Agreed. The new methods would make it easier to port to Python3, though, since e.g. data.encode('hex') is easier to convert to data.transform('hex'). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 09 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 39 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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