New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>: Error handling of PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() is broken by design. The caller cannot know the size of the output buffer because each error handler produce a variable output, whereas the caller has to allocate this buffer and it is not possible to specify the size of the output buffer.
I propose to raise a ValueError if the error handler is different than "strict" and do this change in Python 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3. In Python 2.7 code base, PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() is always called with errors=NULL. In Python 3.x, the function is no more called. Attached patch is for Python 3.2. See also the issue #13093. ---------- components: Unicode files: encode_decimal_errors.patch keywords: patch messages: 148111 nosy: ezio.melotti, haypo, loewis, skrah priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal: reject error handlers different than strict versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23754/encode_decimal_errors.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13452> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
