Martin Panter added the comment:
Personally I don’t have a problem with the names; I would consider str(),
bytes(), bytearray() types all to be “strings”. However there is precedent in
the “base64” module for renaming to en/decodebytes(); see Issue 3613.
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nosy: +vadmium
R. David Murray added the comment:
Well, it's not actually obvious that this should be done. Or, at least, it is
not obvious the old methods should be dropped. I think we had this same
discussion about a similar method in ElementTree. I don't remember the outcome
except that I'm pretty sure
New submission from Senthil Kumaran:
issue15588 brought the topic that quopri has ancient methods like encodestring,
decodestring, which a user might expect that will send a string, but instead
has to send bytes.
This needs to be cleaned up.
a) function name should be accurate and represent
