Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 02.05.2013 16:53, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > > Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: > > On 02.05.2013 16:45, Walter Dörwald wrote: >> ... >> The search function can't return a list of codec names in this case, as the >> list is infinite. > > True. > > The search object will have to be allowed to raise a > NotImplementedError or some other error/return value > to signal that the list of supported codecs is not available. > > Note that the search object should only return a list of > supported canonical encoding names with .list_codecs(), > not all possible ones :-)
Scratch that last sentence. Returning CodecInfo instances, as I originally wrote, is a better way to go. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17878> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
