[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex() [Was: PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349?] (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 17 00:33:49 CET 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

I would agree that zip is questionable, but 'uu', 'rot13', perhaps 'hex', and likely a few others that the two of you may be arguing against should stay as encodings, because strictly speaking, they are defined as encodings of data. They may not be encodings of unicode data, but that doesn't mean that they aren't useful encodings for other kinds of data, some text, some binary, ...

To support them, the bytes type would have to gain a .encode method, and I'm -1 on supporting bytes.encode, or string.decode.

Why is

s.encode("uu")

any better than

binascii.b2a_uu(s)

Regards, Martin

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