Martin Panter added the comment: Serhiy’s two proposals won’t work for codecs that include non-zero output for zero input:
>>> tuple(iterencode((), "utf-8-sig")) (b'\xef\xbb\xbf',) >>> encode(b"", "uu") b'begin 666 <data>\n \nend\n' >>> encode(b"", "zlib") b'x\x9c\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01' However I agree that changing the incremental codec APIs is not ideal. Since nobody seems to care that much, it might be simpler to document that: * iterencode() only works where text str objects can be encoded, so base64-codec is not supported, but rot13-codec is supported * iterdecode() only works where bytes objects can be decoded, so rot13-codec is not supported, but base64-codec should be supported (pending other aspects of Issue 20132) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23231> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
