In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote:
> > I had seen iconv. Even if my system supports it and it is faster than
> > Python's charmap decoder, it might not be available on other systems.
> > Requiring something unusual in order to do a trivial LUT task isn't an
> > acceptable solution. If I write a charmap decoder as an extension
> > module in Pyrex I can include it with the program. I would prefer a
> > solution that doesn't even need that, preferably in pure Python. Since
> > Python does all the hard wark so fast it certainly could do it, and it
> > can almost do it with "".translate().
>
> Well, did you try a pure-Python version yourself?
>
> table = [chr(i).decode("mac-roman","replace") for i in range(256)]
>
> def decode_mac_roman(s):
> result = [table[ord(c)] for c in s]
> return u"".join(result)
>
> How much faster than the standard codec is that?
It's .18x faster.
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