[Python-Dev] Codecs and StreamCodecs

[Greg Stein]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> wrote:
> > Why a factory? I've got a simple encode() function. I don't need a
> > factory. "flexibility" at the cost of complexity (IMO).
> 
> so where do you put the state?

encode() is not supposed to retain state. It is supposed to do a complete
translation. It is not a stream thingy, which may have received partial
characters.

> how do you reset the state between
> strings?

There is none :-)

> how do you handle incremental
> decoding/encoding?

Streams.

-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/