Fredrik Lundh <fred...@effbot.org> added the comment: "I wouldn't raise much opposition against tobytes() as an alias for tostring(), although that sounds more like duplicating an otherwise simple API."
Adding an alias would be a way address the 2.X/3.X terminology overlap; string traditionally implies 8-bit in 2.X, and apparently now Unicode in 3.X. That's likely to cause a lot of confusion for people switching over (and to people writing 3.X documentation, as well; the array module's documentation is an example). ET isn't the only thing with tostring functionality, of course -- it's pretty much the standard name for "serialize data structure to byte string for later transmission" -- so it probably wouldn't hurt with a python-dev pronouncement here. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8047> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
