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- """ Standard "encodings" Package
-
- Standard Python encoding modules are stored in this package
- directory.
-
- Codec modules must have names corresponding to standard lower-case
- encoding names with hyphens mapped to underscores, e.g. 'utf-8' is
- implemented by the module 'utf_8.py'.
-
- Each codec module must export the following interface:
-
- * getregentry() -> (encoder, decoder, stream_reader, stream_writer)
- The getregentry() API must return callable objects which adhere to
- the Python Codec Interface Standard.
-
- In addition, a module may optionally also define the following
- APIs which are then used by the package's codec search function:
-
- * getaliases() -> sequence of encoding name strings to use as aliases
-
- Alias names returned by getaliases() must be standard encoding
- names as defined above (lower-case, hyphens converted to
- underscores).
-
- Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
-
- (c) Copyright CNRI, All Rights Reserved. NO WARRANTY.
-
- """#"
-
- import codecs,aliases,exceptions
-
- _cache = {}
- _unknown = '--unknown--'
-
- class CodecRegistryError(exceptions.LookupError,
- exceptions.SystemError):
- pass
-
- def search_function(encoding):
-
- # Cache lookup
- entry = _cache.get(encoding,_unknown)
- if entry is not _unknown:
- return entry
-
- # Import the module
- modname = encoding.replace('-', '_')
- modname = aliases.aliases.get(modname,modname)
- try:
- mod = __import__(modname,globals(),locals(),'*')
- except ImportError,why:
- # cache misses
- _cache[encoding] = None
- return None
-
- # Now ask the module for the registry entry
- try:
- entry = tuple(mod.getregentry())
- except AttributeError:
- entry = ()
- if len(entry) != 4:
- raise CodecRegistryError,\
- 'module "%s" (%s) failed to register' % \
- (mod.__name__, mod.__file__)
- for obj in entry:
- if not callable(obj):
- raise CodecRegistryError,\
- 'incompatible codecs in module "%s" (%s)' % \
- (mod.__name__, mod.__file__)
-
- # Cache the codec registry entry
- _cache[encoding] = entry
-
- # Register its aliases (without overwriting previously registered
- # aliases)
- try:
- codecaliases = mod.getaliases()
- except AttributeError:
- pass
- else:
- for alias in codecaliases:
- if not aliases.aliases.has_key(alias):
- aliases.aliases[alias] = modname
-
- # Return the registry entry
- return entry
-
- # Register the search_function in the Python codec registry
- codecs.register(search_function)
-