Tony Nelson wrote: > I had seen iconv. Even if my system supports it and it is faster than > Python's charmap decoder, it might not be available on other systems. > Requiring something unusual in order to do a trivial LUT task isn't an > acceptable solution. If I write a charmap decoder as an extension > module in Pyrex I can include it with the program. I would prefer a > solution that doesn't even need that, preferably in pure Python. Since > Python does all the hard wark so fast it certainly could do it, and it > can almost do it with "".translate().
Well, did you try a pure-Python version yourself? table = [chr(i).decode("mac-roman","replace") for i in range(256)] def decode_mac_roman(s): result = [table[ord(c)] for c in s] return u"".join(result) How much faster than the standard codec is that? Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list