[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Feb 18 16:32:41 CET 2006
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006, Ron Adam wrote:
>
> I like the bytes.recode() idea a lot. +1
>
> It seems to me it's a far more useful idea than encoding and decoding by
> overloading and could do both and more. It has a lot of potential to be
> an intermediate step for encoding as well as being used for many other
> translations to byte data.
>
> I think I would prefer that encode and decode be just functions with
> well defined names and arguments instead of being methods or arguments
> to string and Unicode types.
>
> I'm not sure on exactly how this would work. Maybe it would need two
> sets of encodings, ie.. decoders, and encoders. An exception would be
> given if it wasn't found for the direction one was going in.
Here's an idea I don't think I've seen before:
bytes.recode(b, src_encoding, dest_encoding)
This requires the user to state up-front what the source encoding is.
One of the big problems that I see with the whole encoding mess is that
so much of it contains implicit assumptions about the source encoding;
this gets away from that.
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