[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000 (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 16 04:46:21 CEST 2008
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
Really? Don't you think it's pretty obvious that b.transform("gzip") compresses and b.untransform("gzip") decompresses? Or that b.transform("base64") generates base64 format?
Well, maybe. I think the problem is that the word "transform" is inherently direction-neutral, and it only becomes obvious that you have a direction in mind for it when you pair it with some invention such as "untransform".
Maybe it's not all that bad, but it just seems like it should be possible to do better than picking a very general word like "transform" and giving it our own special meaning.
-- Greg
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