[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-11-15 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: There are more and more codecs on PyPI. I would be nice to have a list somewhere. @roskakori: Could you please create a page at https://wiki.python.org/ ? Example: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Codecs -- ___ Python

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-11-15 Thread roskakori
roskakori added the comment: I just released a package on PyPI that adds various EBCDIC codecs for Python 2.6+ and Python 3.1+, see . I agree with Marc-Andre, maintaining this is easier as separate package. -- __

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-10-06 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: If more users request this codec, we may integrate it later. Right now, maintain a package on PyPI is enough. It's easy to register a "custom" codec from a third-party codec: use https://docs.python.org/dev/library/codecs.html#codecs.register -- resolu

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-10-06 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: I don't think we should add more EBCDIC codecs to Python's stdlib. It would be better to put a Python package on PyPI which people using these encodings can use. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-10-05 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Currently Python includes codecs for cp037, cp273, and cp500. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-10-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: What do our unicode experts think about this enhancement request? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2013-07-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2013-07-02 Thread roskakori
New submission from roskakori: Currently Python includes a codec for EBCDIC international (cp500) but seems to be missing any further EBCDIC codecs. These encodings are widly used on mainframe platforms, popular in finance and insurance. Descriptions of these codepages are available from IBM: