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

Thu May 15 11:48:55 CEST 2008

On 2008年05月14日 23:42, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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')
>> Nah. I'm still in favor of [un]transform. Let's just stick to that.

Ok, so I'll add
str.transform() -> str (uses the encode function of the codec)
str.untransform() -> str (uses the decode function of the codec)
bytes.transform() -> bytes (uses the encode function of the codec)
bytes.untransform() -> bytes (uses the decode function of the codec)
Is there an easy way to SVN-revive the removed base64, hex, etc
codec modules in encodings ? As far as I remember, I have to look
for the revision just before they were deleted and then "copy" them
from there using the repo URL.
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