[Python-ideas] .from and .to instead of .encode and .decode

[anatoly techtonik]

Hi,

While looking at the code like:

    'os': sysinfo['os'].decode('utf-8'),
    'hostname': sysinfo['hostname'].decode('utf-8'),

I can't really read if the result will be unicode or binary string in
utf-8. It would be more convenient for readability to have these
instead:

    bytes.from(encoding) -> unicode
    unicode.to(encoding) -> bytes

.encode/.decode are confusing, because it Python 2 it was:

    str.encode(encoding) -> str
    str.decode(encoding) -> str

with no encoding info attached.
-- 
anatoly t.