[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>> On 2008-05-14 18:33, Georg Brandl wrote:
>>>
>>> M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> Fine, so we need new methods for PyUnicode and PyString objects
>>>> which allow encoding and decoding using the same type (and enforce
>>>> the return types).
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions ?
>>>>
>>>> How about these:
>>>>
>>>> str.str_encode() -> str
>>>> str.str_decode() -> str
>>>>
>>>> bytes.bytes_encode() -> bytes
>>>> bytes.bytes_decode() -> bytes
>>>
>>> Cool, a naming contest :)
>>>
>>> What about transform/untransform?
>>
>> Not bad :-)
>>
>> Here's a version without underscores:
>>
>> str.encodestr() -> str
>> str.decodestr() -> str
>>
>> bytes.encodebytes() -> bytes
>> bytes.decodebytes() -> bytes
>
> A couple more possibilities (Guido is probably going to have to choose a
> colour for this bikeshed somewhere along the line...):
>
> mystr.recodeto('unicode-escaped')
> mystr.recodefrom('unicode-escaped')
>
> mybytes.recodeto('hex')
> mybytes.recodefrom('hex')

Nah. I'm still in favor of [un]transform. Let's just stick to that.

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