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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 26 23:00:44 CEST 2004

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Uhm, I wasn't talking about the builtin codecs only (of course, we can change those to our liking). I'm after a generic interface for stateful codecs.

But we already have that! The StreamReader/StreamWriter interface is perfectly suited for stateful codecs, and we have been supporting it for several years now. The only problem is that a few builtin codecs failed to implement that correctly, and Walter's patch fixes that bug. There is no API change necessary whatsoever.

True, but the codec writer should be in control of the state object, its format and what the user can or cannot change.

And indeed, with the current API, he is.

Regards, Martin

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