On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:45:26 -0700, 7stud wrote: > On Jul 31, 11:18 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> str.decode and unicode.encode should NOT exist, or at least issue a >> warning (IMHO). >> > > Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
It sounds like horrible idea as those are the ones that are really needed. One could argue about `str.encode` and `unicode.decode`. But there are at least uses for `str.encode` like 'sting-escape', 'hex', 'bz2', 'base64' etc. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list