Walter Dörwald wrote: >> This array would have to be sparse, of course. > > > For encoding yes, for decoding no. [...] > For decoding it should be sufficient to use a unicode string of length > 256. u"\ufffd" could be used for "maps to undefined". Or the string > might be shorter and byte values greater than the length of the string > are treated as "maps to undefined" too.
Right. That's what I meant with "sparse": you somehow need to represent "no value". > This might work, although nobody has complained about charmap encoding > yet. Another option would be to generate a big switch statement in C > and let the compiler decide about the best data structure. I would try to avoid generating C code at all costs. Maintaining the build processes will just be a nightmare. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
