[Python-3000] PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization

[Josiah Carlson]

"Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote:
> I don't remember the whole bytes discussion in terms of encoding and
> decoding.

Check "the bytes type" summary and threads here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063588.html

Also check the "encode and decode interface in Python 3.0" summary and
threads here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063605.html


The three options were more or less:
1) remove bytes.encode and text.decode
2) change the exceptions messages to be more informative
3) do nothing


No one particularly liked #3, #2 could be done today and be usable in
both 2.6 and 3.0 .  Marc-Andre Lemburg was (at the time) in favor of #2,
where Guido preferred #1 (at least in the messages I've re-read).  I
personally prefer #2, as it allows for the most flexibility.


 - Josiah