[New-bugs-announce] [issue21869] Clean up quopri, correct method names encodestring and decodestring

[Senthil Kumaran]

New submission from Senthil Kumaran:

issue15588 brought the topic that quopri has ancient methods like encodestring, decodestring, which a user might expect that will send a string, but instead has to send bytes.

This needs to be cleaned up. 

a) function name should be accurate and represent what is sent and received.
b) tests in that main method should be killed.
c) All references in the stdlib should be updated.

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messages: 221537
nosy: orsenthil, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Clean up quopri, correct method names encodestring and decodestring
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5

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