[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()

Wed Feb 22 21:28:52 CET 2006

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message 
>>> Which is why I think that only *unicode* codings should be
>> available through the .encode and .decode interface. Or
>> alternatively there should be something more explicit like
>> .unicode_encode and .unicode_decode that is thus restricted.
>> I prefer the shorter names and using recode, for instance, for bytes to 
> bytes.

While I prefer constructors with an explicit encode argument, and use a 
recode() method for 'like to like' coding. Then the whole encode/decode 
confusion goes away.