[Python-Dev] "data".decode(encoding) ?!

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I've attached the patch. Due to a small reorganisation the
> > patch is a little longer -- symmetry has its price at C level
> > too ;-)
> 
> Looks good on paper, so go ahead and check it in.  Watch out for
> potential changes caused by Tim's iter-crusade!  :-)

OK. I'll look into this later this week.
 
> While you're at it, why don't you check in the rot13 codec you posted
> -- it's good to have simle examples in the standard library.
> It would also be cool to have codecs for common file encodings like
> base64, quoted-printable, binhex, uuencode, and even hex
> (binascii.hexlify).

Right. I'll add these in the next few weeks -- as time comes
along.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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