[Python-Dev] Some thoughts on the codecs...

[Guido van Rossum]

> This is taking a simple solution and making it complicated. I see no
> benefit to the creating yet-another-level-of-hierarchy. Why should they be
> grouped?
> 
> Leave the modules just under "encodings" and be done with it.

Agreed.  Tim Peters once remarked that Python likes shallow encodings
(or perhaps that *I* like them :-).  This is one such case where I
would strongly urge for the simplicity of a shallow hierarchy.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)