On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:44 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> In Py 2.5 we'll change that. The encodings package search
> function will only allow codecs in that package to be
> imported. All other codec packages will have to provide
> their own search function and register this with the
> codecs regi
Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:07 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Those are not pseudo-encodings, they are regular codecs.
>>
>> It's a common misunderstanding that codecs are only seen as serving
>> the purpose of converting between Unicode and strings.
>>
>> The codec system is
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:07 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Those are not pseudo-encodings, they are regular codecs.
>
> It's a common misunderstanding that codecs are only seen as serving
> the purpose of converting between Unicode and strings.
>
> The codec system is deliberately designed to be