15 May
2001
15 May
'01
11:35 p.m.
I've just checked in a set of patches which implement the new .decode() method along with a couple of useful codecs.
Cool!
To see just how easy it is to write codecs, please have a look at the string codecs I added in this patch (e.g. zlib_codec.py or hex_codec.py). I am pretty sure that there are a lot more useful things in the standard lib which could benefit from these easy-to-use interfaces.
As an excercise, I added a quoted-printable codec. It was easy indeed! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)