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[issue15588] quopri: encodestring and decodestring handle bytes, not strings

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Aug 8, 2012, 12:30 AM

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[issue15588] quopri: encodestring and decodestring handle bytes, not strings

New submission from patrick vrijlandt:

quopri.py's functions encodestring and decodestring are documented to handle strings; and this is clearly suggested by their name. However, these functions accept and return bytes, not strings. This should be reflected in the documentation.

Even better: deprecate these functions and introduce new ones with behaviour as suggested by their names: encode_string, encode_bytes etc.

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assignee: docs [at] pytho
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 167672
nosy: docs [at] pytho, patrick.vrijlandt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: quopri: encodestring and decodestring handle bytes, not strings
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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Aug 8, 2012, 10:39 AM

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[issue15588] quopri: encodestring and decodestring handle bytes, not strings [In reply to]

Changes by R. David Murray <rdmurray [at] bitdance>:

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nosy: +barry, r.david.murray
versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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Aug 18, 2012, 3:25 AM

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[issue15588] quopri: encodestring and decodestring handle bytes, not strings [In reply to]

Petri Lehtinen added the comment:

The encode() and decode() functions also expect binary file objects.

Attached a patch that changes documentation and docstrings. Removed the mentions of readline(), because read() is called on input instead, if the binascii module is available. Also removed the repeated descriptions of quotetabs and header in encodestring()'s docs.

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nosy: +petri.lehtinen
stage: -> patch review
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26886/issue15588.patch

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