[Python-ideas] Add "htmlcharrefreplace" error handler

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 14.06.2013 15:55, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 14.06.2013 14:39, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
>> 2013/6/14 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
>>
>>> Making registration manual would indeed be a better fit for the
>>> intended use cases, IMO. I don't think such a specialized function
>>> belongs to the built-in set of error handlers.
>>>
>>
>> By the way, why is it necessary to register?
>> Since an error handler is defined by its callback function,
>> we could allow functions for the "errors" parameter.
> 
> For the same reason we register modules in sys.modules:
> to be able to reference them by name, rather than by object.
> 
> Also note that codecs expect to get the error parameter as string
> to keep the API simple and to make short-cuts easy to implement
> in the code (esp. in the C implementations).

Here's the PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0293/

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