Re: [Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:

unicode_escape doesn't make any sense anymore -- python code is text, not bytes, so why does 'abc'.encode('unicode_escape') return bytes?

AFAIU the situation is simple: unicode.encode(encoding) returns bytes, bytes.decode(encoding) returns unicode, and neither unicode.decode() nor bytes.encode() exist. Transformations like base64 and bz2 are nor encoding/decoding -- they are bytes/bytes or unicode/unicode transformations. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.