Message 140210 - Python tracker

Message140210

Author	pitrou
Recipients	LambertDW, ajaksu2, benjamin.peterson, docs@python, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, loewis, mgiuca, pitrou, terry.reedy
Date	2011-07-12.19:51:43
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Message-id	<1310500304.01.0.382388351265.issue3565@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Is there still any idea/intention of renaming .from/.tounicode to > .from/.tostring? That would have to be done at least one version with > the 'string' names absent, and would have little gain as 'unicode' is > clear. Indeed, not only it would bring little benefit, but may also confuse users porting from 2.x (since the from/tostring methods would then have a totally different meaning).

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> Is there still any idea/intention of renaming .from/.tounicode to
> .from/.tostring? That would have to be done at least one version with
> the 'string' names absent, and would have little gain as 'unicode' is
> clear.

Indeed, not only it would bring little benefit, but may also confuse users porting from 2.x (since the from/tostring methods would then have a totally different meaning).

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2011-07-12 19:51:44	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, ajaksu2, benjamin.peterson, LambertDW, eric.araujo, mgiuca, docs@python
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