Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> - If it is no burden to have to import a module and call an external
> function for some transformations, why have encode and decode methods at
> all?
Now that all text strings are unicode, the unicode codecs
are in a sense special, in that you can't do any string
I/O at all without using them at some stage. So arguably
it makes sense to have a very easy way of invoking them.
I suspect that without this, the idea of all strings
being unicode would have been even harder to sell than
it was.
--
Greg
