STINNER Victor added the comment:
Hum, I only changed PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal in Python 3.3, I prefer to not
touch stable releases (2.7, 3.2).
New changeset a20fae95618c by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
Close #13093: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
http://hg.pyth
STINNER Victor added the comment:
> I'm only using the function with the NULL error handler.
I don't think that anyone uses it without something else. The function is used
to prepare a string input for a function converting a string to an integer. I
don't see how xmlcharrefreplace can be usef
Stefan Krah added the comment:
I'm only using the function with the NULL error handler. If I had
to use 'xmlcharrefreplace', presumably I'd overallocate 'output'
for the worst case scenario: sizeof("�") per encoded
character.
It's hard to tell if people are using this feature. PyUnicode_EncodeD
New submission from STINNER Victor :
Error handling of PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() is broken by design. The caller
cannot know the size of the output buffer because each error handler produce a
variable output, whereas the caller has to allocate
this buffer and it is not possible to specify the
