[Python-Dev] 3.0 C API to decode bytes into unicode?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-08-01 15:38, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>>> I cannot see how I implement decode() for bytes objects using the C API
>>> for PyCXX library,
>>>
>>> I'd assuming that I should find a PyBytes_Decode function but cannot find it
>>> in beta 2.
>>>
>>> What is the preferred way to do this?
>> PyObject_CallMethod(bytesobj, "decode", "")
>>
>> PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject takes an encoding argument.
> 
> There is also PyCodec_Decode() but it does not seem to be documented,
> nor is any function declared in codecs.h.
> Is it part of the public API?

Yes, of course. I guess I never got around to writing docs for it
at the time.

This should basically just be a matter of converting the header file
codecs.h into ReST. The APIs are all documented in that header file.

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