[Python-Dev] Adding Japanese Codecs to the distro

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
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>>The problem I see is size: Tamito's codecs have an installed
>>size of 1790kB while Hisao's codecs are around 81kB.
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> It isn't quite that bad: You need to count the "c" directory only,
> which is 690kB on my system.

I was looking at the directory which gets installed to
site-packages. That's 1790kB on my system.

>>That's why I was suggesting to use Hisao's codecs as default and
>>to revert to Tamito's in case they are installed (much like you'd use
>>cStringIO instead of StringIO if it's installed).
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> The analogy isn't that good here: it would be more similar if StringIO
> was incomplete, e.g. would be lacking a .readlines() function, so you
> would have no choice but to use cStringIO if you happen to need
> .readlines().

But you get the picture ... ;-)

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