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

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Mon Aug 23 22:41:55 CEST 2004

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Walter Dörwald wrote:

Both approaches have one problem: Error handling won't work for them. If the error handling is "replace", the decoder should return U+FFFD for the final trailing incomplete sequence in read(). This won't happen when read() never reads those bytes from the input stream. Ok. So it really looks like a final flag on read is necessary. Well, I had to choose a subject. ;) I still would prefer if the two issues were discussed separately.

OK, let's come up with a patch that fixes the incomplete byte sequences problem and then discuss non-stream APIs.

So, what should the next step be?

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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