Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Marc-Andre Lemburg <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: > > Please note that PyCodec_Encode()/PyCodec_Decode() will return whatever the > codec returns for these operations. > > The codec system is not limited to converting between Unicode and bytes only. Not according to the latest reST documentation: """ * Encoding converts a string object to a bytes object using a particular character set encoding (e.g., cp1252 or iso-8859-1). * Decoding converts a bytes object encoded using a particular character set encoding to a string object. """ http://docs.python.org/dev/library/codecs.html?highlight=codecs#codecs.Codec.encode > A typical example is a same-type codec such as rot13 that only transforms > Unicode data. I thought rot13 would only transform English (or Latin) alphabet. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10435> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
