[Python-Dev] Allowing u.encode() to return non-strings

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>> -1. I find it unfortunate that there are encodings which
>>> don't convert between Unicode and byte strings; this direction
>>> should not be followed.
>>>
>>> Instead, text processing utilities should be proper libraries.
>>
>> I don't understand... codecs are not limited to only text
>> processing. It's a completely independent framework from the
>> Unicode sub-system.
> 
> I know this is viewed, and perhaps even documented, as a
> framework independent of Unicode. I think this is a mistake,
> and it should have been constrained to character encodings
> (i.e. conversions to and from Unicode, using character tables
> or similar algorithms) right from the beginning.

Ok, noted.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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