April 23, 2013
5:48 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
As others have pointed out in the past, repeatedly, the codec system is completely general and can transform bytes->bytes and text->text just as easily as bytes<->text.
Yes, but the encode()/decode() methods are not, and the fact that you now know what goes in and what comes out means that people get much fewer Decode/EncodeErrors. Which is a good thing. //Lennart