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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Nick Coghlan 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).

Good point.

We already discussed these methods in 2008 and Guido
approved them back then, so perhaps that's a good argument
for an exception.

> 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.

The new methods would make it easier to port to Python3, though,
since e.g. data.encode('hex') is easier to convert to
data.transform('hex').

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