[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

Wed May 14 23:39:00 CEST 2008

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 2008年05月14日 18:33, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
>>> Fine, so we need new methods for PyUnicode and PyString objects
>>> which allow encoding and decoding using the same type (and enforce
>>> the return types).
>>>>>> Any suggestions ?
>>>>>> How about these:
>>>>>> str.str_encode() -> str
>>> str.str_decode() -> str
>>>>>> bytes.bytes_encode() -> bytes
>>> bytes.bytes_decode() -> bytes
>>>> Cool, a naming contest :)
>>>> What about transform/untransform?
>> Not bad :-)
>> Here's a version without underscores:
>> str.encodestr() -> str
> str.decodestr() -> str
>> bytes.encodebytes() -> bytes
> bytes.decodebytes() -> bytes

A couple more possibilities (Guido is probably going to have to choose a 
colour for this bikeshed somewhere along the line...):
mystr.recodeto('unicode-escaped')
mystr.recodefrom('unicode-escaped')
mybytes.recodeto('hex')
mybytes.recodefrom('hex')
Cheers,
Nick.
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