On 2/27/07, Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > The encoding/decoding behavior should be no different from that of the > > encode() and decode() methods on unicode strings and byte arrays. > > Except that it must work in incremental mode. The new (in 2.5) > incremental codecs should be usable for that.
Thanks for reminding! Do the incremental codecs have internal state? I wonder how this interacts with non-blocking reads. (I know next-to-nothing about incremental codecs beyond that they exist. :-) > > Certainly no normalization of diacritics will be done; surrogate > > handling depends on the encoding and whether the unicode string > > implementation uses 16 or 32 bits per character. > > > > I agree that we need to be able to specify the error handling as well. > > Should it be possible to change the error handling during the lifetime > of a stream? Then this change would have to be passed through to the > underlying codec. Not unless you have a really good use case handy... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
