[Python-3000] UTF-32 codecs

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Fri Aug 17 18:42:22 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> wrote:
>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>
>>>> A simple merge won't work, because in 3.0 the codec uses bytes and in
>>>> 2.6 it uses str. Also the call to the decoding error handler has
>>>> changed, because in 3.0 the error handler could modify the mutable input
>>>> buffer.
>>> So what's the strategy then? Block the trunk revision from merging?
>> I've never used svnmerge, so I don't know what the strategy for
>> automatic merging would be. What I would do is check in the patch for
>> the py3k branch, then apply the patch to the trunk, get it to work and
>> check it in.
> 
> Go right ahead.

Done! The bug surfacing on Mac is fixed too (stupid typo).

> I'll clean up afterwards.

Thanks!

Servus,
   Walter



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