Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 02.05.2013 16:45, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> ...
> The search function can't return a list of codec names in this case, as the 
> list is infinite.

True.

The search object will have to be allowed to raise a
NotImplementedError or some other error/return value
to signal that the list of supported codecs is not available.

Note that the search object should only return a list of
supported canonical encoding names with .list_codecs(),
not all possible ones :-)

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