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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Feb 18 09:59:38 CET 2006

Aahz wrote:

The problem is that they don't understand that "Martin v. L?wis" is not Unicode -- once all strings are Unicode, this is guaranteed to work.

This specific call, yes. I don't think the problem will go away as long as both encode and decode are available for both strings and byte arrays.

While it's not absolutely true, my experience of watching Unicode confusion is that the simplest approach for newbies is: encode FROM Unicode, decode TO Unicode.

I think this is what should be in-grained into the library, also. It shouldn't try to give additional meaning to these terms.

Regards, Martin

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