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

[Paul Moore]

On 15/05/2008, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Consider code that gets an encoding passed in as a
> variable e. It knows it has a bytes instance b. To encode b from bytes
> to str (unicode), it can use s = b.decode(e).

To encode, you use .decode? It's nice to know it's not just me who has
trouble keeping the terminology straight...

Paul.