It is easy to confuse the names, but it takes 2 seconds in the REPL or in Idle to figure it out, and the concept behind them is pretty obvious, IMO. I'll take

It is easy to confuse the names, but it takes 2 seconds in the REPL or in Idle to figure it out, and the concept behind them is pretty obvious, IMO. I'll take an occasional 2 seconds in the REPL over the headache of debugging codec issues any day of the week.