Michael Urman wrote: > [...] >> Well, there is a way to stack error handlers, although it's not pretty: >> [...] >> codecs.register_error("surrogates_then_replace", >> surrogates_then_replace) > > That mitigates my arguments significantly, although I'd rather see > something like errors=('surrogates', 'replace') chain the handlers > without additional registrations. But that's a different PEP or > arbitrary change. :)
The first version of PEP 293 changed the errors argument to be a string or callable. This would have simplified handler stacking somewhat (because you don't have to register or lookup handlers) but it had the disadvantage that many "char *" arguments in the C API would have had to changed to "PyObject *". Changing the errors argument to a list of strings would have the same problem. Servus, Walter _______________________________________________ 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