[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

Wed Jun 23 02:38:00 CEST 2010

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 15:32, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 6/22/2010 9:24 AM, Michael Urman wrote:
>> These are trivial functions;
>> I just don't fully understand why the capability isn't baked in.
>> Possible reasons: They are special purpose functions easily built on the
> basic functions provided. Fine for a 3rd party library. Most people do not
> need them. Some might be mislead by them. As other have said, "Not every
> one-liner should be builtin".

Perhaps the two-argument constructions on bytes and str should have
been removed in favor of the .decode and .encode methods on their
respective classes. Or vice versa; I don't have the history to know in
which order they originated, and which is theoretically preferred
these days.
-- 
Michael Urman