[Python-3000] PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization

[Michael Urman]

On 1/2/07, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:
> base64.encodestring('hello world')
> or
> base64.b64encode('hello world')
>
> become
> codecs.getencoder('base64')('hello')[0]

Isn't this a lot more idiomatically translated as
    'hello world'.encode('base64')
or is there still too much worry that this will require
encoding/decoding ascii bytestrings?

Your additional points about base32 and base16 still apply to
.encode(), as they each result in an unknown encoding LookupError.

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