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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 17 11🔞55 CEST 2008

Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Having to mess around with import just to support a "choose compression method" configuration option would be fairly annoying. Perhaps, but even then, I'm not sure it makes sense to lump them all into the same namespace. If you're choosing a compression method, it makes sense to choose 'zip', 'gzip', or 'bzip2', but less sense to choose 'hex' or 'base64', and even less 'utf8' or 'latin1'. Similarly there will be different appropriate sets for video encoding, audio encoding, etc.

The problem with that is that defining the categories becomes a fairly tedious chore. Having the codec namespace is convenient, and I don't see anything but downsides in trying to replace it with something more complicated.

Cheers, Nick.

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