[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000 (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed May 14 19:24:11 CEST 2008

On 2008-05-14 18:33, Georg Brandl wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:

In summary, I'd just like to see the following happen:

* revert the type restrictions on the PyCodec* API * enforce the restrictions on the .encode() and .decode() methods of PyUnicode and PyString objects (str and bytes) * add a way to PyUnicode and PyString objects (str and bytes) to allow same type encoding and decoding +1 Will this get use the hex, base64 etc. "codecs" back? If yes, great!

I suppose so :-)

Those would work only work on bytes, though, so to convert the result into text, you'd have to do:

text = bytes.encodebytes('hex').decode('ascii') bytes = text.encode('ascii').decodebytes('hex')

Fine, so we need new methods for PyUnicode and PyString objects which allow encoding and decoding using the same type (and enforce the return types).

Any suggestions ? How about these: str.strencode() -> str str.strdecode() -> str bytes.bytesencode() -> bytes bytes.bytesdecode() -> bytes Cool, a naming contest :) What about transform/untransform?

Not bad :-)

Here's a version without underscores:

str.encodestr() -> str str.decodestr() -> str

bytes.encodebytes() -> bytes bytes.decodebytes() -> bytes

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