[Python-3000] Bytes <-> string conversion methods

[Guido van Rossum]

Yup, that was a typo. Someone else noticed it too. It's fixed in the
version of the slides I'll post to python.org.

--Guido

On 2/24/07, Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> wrote:
> Hi Guido,
>
> I'm in your keynote and looking at a slide right now that says
>
>     * bytes has .encode() method returning a string
>     * str has a .decode() method returning bytes
>
> Should the names of those two methods be swapped?  I think it
> makes more sense to say that an encoding is something that
> transforms a string into a sequence of bytes.
>
>
> -- ?!ng
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