Re: encode() question

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:45:26 -0700, 7stud wrote:

On Jul 31, 11:18 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
str.decode and unicode.encode should NOT exist, or at least issue a
warning (IMHO).


Yes, that sounds like a good idea.

It sounds like horrible idea as those are the ones that are really needed.
One could argue about `str.encode` and `unicode.decode`. But there are at
least uses for `str.encode` like 'sting-escape', 'hex', 'bz2', 'base64'
etc.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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