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

[Greg Ewing]

Wasn't there a big discussion once before about whether
encode/decode should be usable for things other than
unicode<->non-unicode transformations? I thought the
conclusion reached back then was that they shouldn't.

Is there some reason the transformations being talked
about can't just be provided as functions that operate
on strings or bytes?

-- 
Greg