[Python-Dev] Reintroduce or drop completly hex, bz2, rot13, ... codecs (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Wed Jun 9 13:57:05 CEST 2010


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:40, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

No, I don't think so. If I'm using hex "encoding", it's because I want to see a text representation of some arbitrary bytestring (in order to display it inside another piece of text, for example). In other words, the purpose of hex is precisely to give a textual display of non-textual data.

Or I want to encode binary data in a non-binary-safe protocol, in which case I probably want bytes.

Cheers,

Dirkjan



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