Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment: > > I agree with Martin. gzip and bz2 convert bytes to bytes. Encodings deal > strictly with unicode -> bytes.
Sorry, Bejamin, but that's simply not true. Codecs can work with arbitrary types, it's just that the helper methods on unicode and bytes objects only support one combination of types in Python 3.x. codecs.encode()/.decode() provide access to all codecs, regardless of their supported type combinations and of course, you can use them directly via the codec registry, subclass from them, etc. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7475> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
