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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu May 15 13:01:41 CEST 2008

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I'll write up a PEP once we have a better understanding of the details, e.g. of how the codec type information should be defined...

Here's a straight-forward approach: codecinfo.encodetypecombinations = [(bytes, bytes), (str, str)] codecinfo.decodetypecombinations = [(bytes, bytes), (str, str)] for most codecs (e.g. utf-8, latin-1, cp850, etc.) this would then be: codecinfo.encodetypecombinations = [(str, bytes)] codecinfo.decodetypecombinations = [(bytes, str)]

Do we need something that flexible? Would a simpler approach with separate "binary_transform" and "text_transform" flags be enough?

With the latter approach, the encode()/decode() methods could complain if either of the transform flags was set on the codec, while the transform()/untransform() methods could complain if the appropriate transform flag wasn't set.

Note also that both bytearray and bytes provide decode() methods, and will presumably provide transform() methods, so actual type annotations may not be the best way to go about this.

Cheers, Nick.

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