[Python-Dev] 2.2 Unicode questions

[M.-A. Lemburg]

After looking at the web-page I found:

"""
Since their introduction, Unicode strings have supported an encode()
method to convert the string to a selected encoding such as UTF-8 or=20
Latin-1. A symmetric decode([encoding]) method
has been added to both 8-bit and Unicode strings in 2.2, which assumes=20
that the string is in the specified encoding and
decodes it. This means that encode() and decode() can be called on=20
both types of strings, and can be used for tasks
not directly related to Unicode.
"""

I did want to add unicode_string.decode(), but there was unexpected
opposition to this small addition, so I decided to postpone the
change. As a result, things are not as symmetric as they could be=20
in 2.2.

I hope that Walter D=F6rwald finishes the codec callback=20
error handling patch before 2.2a2... it would make a great
difference to the XML crowd.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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