[issue17823] 2to3 fixers for missing codecs

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 25.04.2013 10:14, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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> Nick Coghlan added the comment:
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> A more consistent alternative conversion:
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> "...".encode("base64") => codecs.encode("...", "base64_codec")
> "...".encode("rot13") => codecs.encode("...", "rot_13")
> "...".encode("zlib") => codecs.encode("...", "zlib_codec")
> "...".encode("hex") => codecs.encode("...", "hex_codec")
> "...".encode("bz2") => codecs.encode("...", "bz2_codec")
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> "...".decode("base64") => codecs.decode("...", "base64_codec")
> "...".decode("rot13") => codecs.decode("...", "rot_13")
> "...".decode("zlib") => codecs.decode("...", "zlib_codec")
> "...".decode("hex") => codecs.decode("...", "hex_codec")
> "...".decode("bz2") => codecs.decode("...", "bz2_codec")

It would be better to add back the aliases we had for these codecs.

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