[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: The "bytes" object
Ron Adam
rrr at ronadam.com
Sat Feb 25 01:47:04 CET 2006
Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Am I the only one who finds the use of "self" on a classmethod to be
>> incredibly confusing? Can we please follow PEP 8 and use "cls"
>> instead?
>
> Sorry, using "self" was an oversight. It should be "cls", IMO.
>
> Neil
IMO2
Why was it decided that the unicode encoding argument should be ignored
if the first argument is a string? Wouldn't an exception be better
rather than give the impression it does something when it doesn't?
Ron
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