On 6/9/2010 7:45 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
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).
+1 also. This is neither new syntax, nor, really a new feature.
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').
That would definitely be a point in favor of getting this in 3.2, with
appropriate additions to 2to3.
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