[Python-Dev] Reintroduce or drop completly hex, bz2, rot13, ... codecs

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:14:33 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/06/10 18:41, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > The methods to be used will be .transform() for the encode direction
> > and .untransform() for the decode direction.
> 
> +1, although adding this for 3.2 would need an exception to the 
> moratorium approved (since it is adding new methods for builtin types).
> 
> Adding the same-type codecs back even without the helper methods should 
> be fine though (less useful without the helper methods, obviously, but 
> still valid).

Agreed.  And I think making an exception to the moratorium for
translate/untranslate is justified, given that this is restoring a
feature that Python2 had, in a Python3 compatible manner.

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R. David Murray                                      www.bitdance.com