On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:14:56 -0500, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:11 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > .. > > Please also recall that transform/untransform was discussed before > > the release of Python 3.0 and was approved at the time, but it just > > did not get implemented before the 3.0 release. > > > > Can you provide a link? My search for transform on python-dev came out with
It was linked from the issue, if I recall correctly. I do remember reading the thread from the python-3000 list, linked by someone somewhere :) > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/100564.html > > where you seem to oppose these methods. Also, new methods to builtins It looks to me like I was agreeing that transform/untrasnform should do only bytes->bytes or str->str regardless of what codec name you passed them. > fall under the language moratorium (but can be approved on a > case-by-case basis): > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/#case-by-case-exemptions > > Is there an effort to document these exceptions? I expected such > approvals to be added to PEP 3003, but apparently this was not the > case. I believe MAL's thought was that the addition of these methods had been approved pre-moratorium, but I don't know if that is a sufficient argument or not. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ 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