[Python-Dev] Add transform() and untranform() methods (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 16 12:38:47 CET 2013


On 16 November 2013 20:45, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Why not using str type for str and str subtypes, and bytes type for bytes and bytes-like object (bytearray, memoryview)? I don't think that we need an ABC here.

We'd only need an ABC if info was added for supported input types. However, that's not necessary since "encodes_to" and "decodes_to" are enough to identify Unicode encodings: "encodes_to in (None, bytes) and decodes_to in (None, str)", so we don't need to track input type support at all if the main question we want to answer is "is this a Unicode codec or not?".

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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