[issue24339] iso6937 encoding missing

2021-06-29 Thread Maarten Derickx
Maarten Derickx added the comment: Hi Marc-Andre Lemburg, Thanks for your responses and guidance. At least your pointers to charmap_encode and charmap_decode helped, since it shows at least what the general idea is on how to deal with these types of encodings. In the mean time I did

[issue24339] iso6937 encoding missing

2021-06-29 Thread Maarten Derickx
Maarten Derickx added the comment: The route via gencodec or more generally via charmap_encode and charmap_decode seems to be one that is not possible without some low level CPython code adjustments. The reason for this is that charmap_encode and charmap_decode only seem to support mappings

[issue24339] iso6937 encoding missing

2021-06-24 Thread Maarten Derickx
Maarten Derickx added the comment: Hi Marc-Andre Lemburg, Thanks for your reply. I tried using gencodec.py as could be downloaded from https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/unicode/gencodec.py as you mentioned. However the code in gencodec.py seems to be in a much worse shape

[issue24339] iso6937 encoding missing

2021-06-23 Thread Maarten Derickx
Maarten Derickx added the comment: Is there any way to contact John Helour? I would still very much like to put this package on github and pypi. And would like to ask him permission for licensing. Or is there some standard open source license under which all code uploaded to https