[Python-Dev] Easy codec access

skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro) skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Wed, 16 May 2001 12:44:15 -0500


    mal> Still their basic task is to take an object and encode in some way
    mal> for dumps() and do the reverse for loads().  That's pretty much
    mal> what codecs normally do ;-)

Yes, I see that.  The conceptual problem I have is that in all previous
examples I've seen here they have taken as input and returned as outputs
only strings or unicode objects.

    mal> These two are very useful though when it comes to using codecs
    mal> for file wrappers:

This use I missed.  Thanks for the explanation.

Skip