[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

While not strictly necessary, a PEP would be certainly useful and will help reaching a consensus.  The PEP should provide a summary of the available options (transform/untransforms, reintroducing encode/decode for bytes/str, maybe others), their intended behavior (e.g. is type(x.transform()) == type(x) always true?), and possible issues (e.g.  Should some transformations be limited to str or bytes?  Should rot13 work with both transform and untransform?).
Even if we all agreed on a solution, such document would still be useful IMHO.

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