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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 19 20:54:38 CEST 2004

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Marc-Andre, if the original patch (diff.txt) was applied: What specific change in that patch would break code? What specific code (C or Python) would break under that change? [...] Let's flesh this out some more and get a better understanding of what is needed and how the separation between the stream queue, the stream codec and the underlying codec implementation can be put to good use.

That really didn't answer the question: What would be technically wrong with accepting Walter's patches?

I smell over-designing: there is a specific problem at hand (incomplete reads resulting in partial decoding); any solution should attempt to only solve this problem, not any other problem.

Regards, Martin

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