In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote: > > Is there a faster way to decode from charmaps to utf-8 than unicode()? > > You could try the iconv codec, if your system supports iconv: > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python-codecs/practicecodecs/iconv/ I had seen iconv. Even if my system supports it and it is faster than Python's charmap decoder, it might not be available on other systems. Requiring something unusual in order to do a trivial LUT task isn't an acceptable solution. If I write a charmap decoder as an extension module in Pyrex I can include it with the program. I would prefer a solution that doesn't even need that, preferably in pure Python. Since Python does all the hard wark so fast it certainly could do it, and it can almost do it with "".translate(). ________________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
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