Re: [Python-Dev] Restoring the aliases for the non-Unicode codecs

2013-11-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 November 2013 01:43, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > > > The long gory history in http://bugs.python.org/issue7475 took a > > different turn earlier this year when I noticed > > (http://bugs.python.org/issue7475#msg187698) that the codecs module > > already *had* type

Re: [Python-Dev] Restoring the aliases for the non-Unicode codecs

2013-11-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 13.11.2013 15:29, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Back in Python 3.2, the non-Unicode codecs were restored to the > standard library, but without the associated aliases (mostly due to > some thoroughly confusing error messages when they were mistakenly > used with the Unicode encoding convenience methods)