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

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Wed Jul 28 10:36:38 CEST 2004

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I like the idea, but don't think the implementation is the right way to do it. Instead, I'd suggest using a new error handling strategy "break" ( = break processing as soon as errors are found). Can you demonstrate this approach in a patch? I think it is unimplementable: the codec cannot communicate to the error callback that it ran out of data.

We would need a special attribute in the exception for that, but the problem IMHO is a different one. This makes it impossible to use other error handling schemes than "break" in stateful decoders.

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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