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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-14 23:42, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so I'll add

str.transform() -> str     (uses the encode function of the codec)
str.untransform() -> str   (uses the decode function of the codec)

bytes.transform() -> bytes   (uses the encode function of the codec)
bytes.untransform() -> bytes (uses the decode function of the codec)

Is there an easy way to SVN-revive the removed base64, hex, etc
codec modules in encodings ? As far as I remember, I have to look
for the revision just before they were deleted and then "copy" them
from there using the repo URL.

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