[Python-Dev] Decoding incomplete unicode (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Aug 25 10:32:41 CEST 2004

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Walter Dörwald wrote:

If a tuple is passed and returned this makes it possible from Python code to mangle the state. IMHO this should be avoided if possible. Not necessarily. We are all consenting adults. So if the code checks whether the state is sane, from a typing point of view, i.e. if you can't crash the interpreter, then there is no need to hide the state from the user.

Martin, there are two reasons for hiding away these details:

  1. we need to be able to change the codec state without breaking the APIs

  2. we don't want the state to be altered by the user

A single object serves this best and does not create a whole plethora of new APIs in the _codecs module. This is not over-design, but serves a reason.

Thanks,

Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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