[docs] [issue24144] Docs discourage use of binascii.unhexlify etc.

[Devin Jeanpierre]

New submission from Devin Jeanpierre:

Maybe the functions should be split up into those you shouldn't need to call directly, and those you should? I find it unlikely that you're supposed to use codecs.encode(..., 'hex') and codecs.decode(..., 'hex') instead of binascii (the only other thing, AFAIK, that works in both 2 and 3).

Relevant quote starts with: "Normally, you will not use these functions directly"

https://docs.python.org/2/library/binascii
https://docs.python.org/3/library/binascii

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 242737
nosy: Devin Jeanpierre, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Docs discourage use of binascii.unhexlify etc.
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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