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

Paramjit Oberoi param at cs.wisc.edu
Thu May 15 17:06:34 CEST 2008

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 15/05/2008, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Consider code that gets an encoding passed in as a variable e. It knows it has a bytes instance b. To encode b from bytes to str (unicode), it can use s = b.decode(e). To encode, you use .decode? It's nice to know it's not just me who has trouble keeping the terminology straight...

It takes a lot of effort, and constant vigilance, to keep encode/decode straight in one's head. Maybe this means they need to be renamed to something like tobytes() and tostring()?

tostring() is probably not the best choice though - too much baggage from java.

-param

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