On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:22 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Just as reminder: we have the general purpose > encode()/decode() functions in the codecs module: > > import codecs > r13 = codecs.encode('hello world', 'rot-13') > > These interface directly to the codec interfaces, without > enforcing type restrictions. The codec defines the supported > input and output types.
As an implementation mechanism I see nothing wrong with this. I hope the codecs module lets you introspect the input and output types of a codec given by name? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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