Re: codecs.getencoder encodes entire string ?

2005-07-29 Thread nicolas_riesch
Thank you very much ! Nicolas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: codecs.getencoder encodes entire string ?

2005-07-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
nicolas_riesch wrote: > I just don't understand why it returns the "length consumed". > > Does it means that in some case, the input string can be only partially > converted ? For an encoder, I believe the answer is "no". For a decoder, it is a definite yes: if the input does not end with a comp

Re: codecs.getencoder encodes entire string ?

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:42:57AM -0700, nicolas_riesch wrote: > And a last question: can I call this "enc" function from multiple > threads ? Yes. Jeff pgphSka1eU9PQ.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

codecs.getencoder encodes entire string ?

2005-07-28 Thread nicolas_riesch
When I use an encoder function from codecs module, documentation says that it encodes the object input and returns a tuple (output object, length consumed). >>> import codecs >>> enc=codecs.getencoder('iso-8859-1') >>> enc(u'asdf') ('asdf', 4) >>> I just don't understand why it returns the "leng