On 30.04.2013 11:52, Paul Moore wrote: > On 30 April 2013 10:42, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It would be possible to get a list of registered codec search functions, >> but there's no API to ask the search functions for a list of supported >> codecs. >> > > OK, so there's no way to determine in advance what values of enc will work > in bytestr.decode(enc) or str.encode(enc)? > > Is there a reason why not?
Nothing in particular, except maybe that it can be expensive to generate such a list (e.g. you'd have to verify that the codec modules import correctly and provide the needed getregentry() API). > As I say, a tool that offers to re-encode a file > could reasonably be expected to list the encodings it supported (if only to > help the user work out which way to spell utf-16le or utf16le or utf16-le > or utf-16-le or... :-)) > > I've raised http://bugs.python.org/issue17878 for this. Further discussion > may be more appropriate there than on python-dev. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 30 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-04-30: Released eGenix PyRun 1.2.0 ... http://egenix.com/go44 2013-04-17: Released eGenix mx Base 3.2.6 ... http://egenix.com/go43 ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
