[Python-Dev] Add transform() and untranform() methods

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:46:15 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 November 2013 00:04, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> >> Rather than the more useful:
> >>
> >> >>> b"abcdef".decode("hex")
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >> TypeError: 'hex' decoder returned 'bytes' instead of 'str'; use
> >> codecs.decode() to decode to arbitrary types
> >
> > I think this may be confusing.  TypeError seems to suggest that the
> > parameter type sent by the user to the method is wrong, which is not
> > the actual cause of the error.
> 
> The TypeError isn't new,

Really? That's not what your message said.

Regards

Antoine.