[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

R. David Murray added the comment: In changeset d843a1caba78 (I screwed up the issue number in the commit), I added aliases according to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-charsets/2002JulSep/0153.html plus what appears to be the conventional alias of just the number, and added it to th

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 93645b0b6750 by Andrew Kuchling in branch 'default': #1097797: add the original mapping file http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/93645b0b6750 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Committed this to 3.4. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset fa2581bbef44 by Andrew Kuchling in branch 'default': Add news entry for #1097797; whitespace cleanup http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fa2581bbef44 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 7d9d1bcd7d18 by Andrew Kuchling in branch 'default': #1097797: Add CP273 codec, and exercise it in the test suite http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7d9d1bcd7d18 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Mark Lawrence added the comment: The consensus is that this should have gone into Python years ago. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > A.M. Kuchling added the comment: > > I tried figuring out to rebuild the codecs using the scripts in > Tools/unicode/ but failed. Is the use of that directory documented anywhere? See the Makefile in that directory - that's wha

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: I tried figuring out to rebuild the codecs using the scripts in Tools/unicode/ but failed. Is the use of that directory documented anywhere? -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Like I said a few years: this can go in. Python is used a lot in the financial industry. The code page is referenced in this RFC: http://rfc.dotsrc.org/rfc/rfc1345.html This page has a good comparison of the various IBM code pages as shipped with differen

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Michael Bierenfeld added the comment: "Old IBM Mainframes" are widely used in the financial industry. It would be good if the patch is included ___ Python tracker ___

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: A Google search for "cp273 encoding" reveals that at least one other person needed it: http://www.stroeder.com/pylib/encodings/cp273.py -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker _

[issue1097797] Encoding for Code Page 273 used by EBCDIC Germany Austria

Daniel Diniz added the comment: Looks like it was never included. I guess '"old" IBM Mainframes' is a dwindling user base, should this one be closed? -- nosy: +ajaksu2 type: -> feature request versions: +Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker